Romeo and Juliet

Story Structure of Romeo and Juliet: A Tidy Analysis Using this week’s #TidyTuesday dataset, we are exploring dialogue in Shakespeare plays. The dataset this week comes from shakespeare.mit.edu (via github.com/nrennie/shakespeare) which is the Web’s first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. The site has offered Shakespeare’s plays and poetry to the internet community since 1993. Dialogue from Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet are provided for this week.

A Misleading Chart: Ireland’s Olympic Success Story

The other day, I saw this Twitter post: “This is a masterclass (yet again) in IrishTimes on how NOT to present information,” Dublin-based research consultant Dr Eemer Eivers wrote. “Quick glance & you’d be sure 🇮🇪 has tumbled DOWN the medal tables since 2000. FFS. This is criminal level breaking of the rules of how to share data.” When we look at data, especially in charts, we expect it to be clear and intuitive.