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Maarten Hermans

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R tidyverse - VDAB open data example map
Basic example showing tidyverse approach to cleaning & visualising spatial data. Demonstrates a.o. fetching remote JSON-data; manipulating sf spatial with dplyr; and customizing R leaflet marker icons based on dataset-values. Example open data used are office locations of VDAB, the regional public employment service of Flanders.
Example of automatic label placement with ggrepel
R code-snippet, remaking Eurofound graph on sector-average job strain, demonstrating use of ggrepel for label adjustment
Read & plot Belgian statistical sectors in a few seconds
Read & plot Belgian statistical sectors in a few seconds with R, Docker and GDAL.
Country subreddit descriptives
Basic descriptives of subreddit comments collected mid May 2015, focus on downvote patterns.