emi tanaka – Blog

Final lecture at Monash University

All the teaching materials I developed at Monash University.

Getting the most out of your experimental data with design

The content of this blog post is originally published in the Biometric Bulletin (2022) Volume 39 Issue 4.

Affective colors in data visualisation

color

This post extracts the colors and its frequency distribution from an experiment where participants were required to make a five color palette based on certain set of emotions.

edibble experimental design with sensory discrimination tests

R

experimental design

edibble

Can Australians distinguish the true taste of Vegemite? Designing an experiment with sensory discrimination test using the edibble package.

How to transition from xaringan to Quarto revealjs

Quarto

xaringan

revealjs

remarkjs

This post shows a feature in xaringan slides (powered by remark.js) that is roughly equivalent in Quarto revealjs slides.

Academic ranks

Different countries adopt a different system for academic ranks. This posts show a mapping of academic ranks across Australian, NZ, UK & North American systems.

To new beginnings

life

Maximum potential

life

outlier

It’s a tragedy when those who have talent don’t get to fully express it because of the environment.

War

life

What good is in a war?

simulate: proof of concept R-package

R

simulate

A proof of concept of parametric simulation framework to generate complex multivariate and multilevel data

Colorblind checks for qualitative palettes

R

color

Checking the color blind friendliness of a number of qualitative palettes.

Manipulating arrays with dynamic dimensions in R

R

programming

Challenges and solutions for creating functions to manipulate arrays in R when the number of dimensions is unknown.

Are anime titles getting longer?

anime

R

A quick exploratory analysis on the length of anime titles.

Current state of R packages for the design of experiments

experimental design

R

Your analytical toolkit matters very little if the data are no good. Ideally you want to know to how the data were collected before delving into the analysis of the data; better yet, get involved before the collection of data and design its collection. In this post I explore some of the top downloaded R packages for the design of experiments and analysis of experimental data.

Drawing a UML Sequence Diagram

visualisation

diagram

Search for the way to draw a UML sequence diagram.

My Travel Schedule 2019: Building an interactive visualisation as twitter card

visualisation

interactive

Making an interactive schedule heat map with interactive twitter card display.

Making a Hexagon Sticker

fun

Making hexagon stickers have become popular for R-packages with the range of packages associated with RStudio, such as ggplot2, knitr, devtools and so on, having its own hex stickers. For the sticker that I made for my R-package I found it easier, partly due to its long name, to use powerpoint to manipulate the image and create a semi-circular text.