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A blog on demography, R programming, and data visualization by Ilya Kashnitsky, Senior Researcher at Statistics Denmark. Browse posts by year below.

2026

2025

Beyond Fraud: How IHME Distorts Academic Metrics

Beyond Fraud: How IHME Distorts Academic Metrics

r
academia
bibliometrics
demography

October 13, 2025

Sidekick projects may be worthy distractions for an early academic

Sidekick projects may be worthy distractions for an early academic

academia
career
demography

July 22, 2025

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2024

Rotate the damn plot

Rotate the damn plot

r
dataviz
trick

December 18, 2024

[UPD] Zotero hacks: reliably setup unlimited storage for you personal academic library

[UPD] Zotero hacks: reliably setup unlimited storage for you personal academic library

r
tutorial

August 16, 2024

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2023

30DayMapChallenge my 25/30 contributions

30DayMapChallenge my 25/30 contributions

r
rspatial
ggplot2

December 21, 2023

Improve your maps in one line of code changing map projections

Improve your maps in one line of code changing map projections

r
rspatial
ggplot2

November 4, 2023

Geocode address text strings using `tidygeocoder`

Geocode address text strings using `tidygeocoder`

r
rspatial
ggplot2

November 1, 2023

Save space in faceted plots

Save space in faceted plots

r
dataviz
trick
faceting

February 27, 2023

Easily re-using self-written functions: the power of gist + code snippet duo

Easily re-using self-written functions: the power of gist + code snippet duo

r
rstudio
trick

January 3, 2023

The easiest way to radically improve map aesthetics

The easiest way to radically improve map aesthetics

r
rspatial
dataviz
trick

January 1, 2023

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2022

Were there too many unlikely results at the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar?

Were there too many unlikely results at the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar?

r
football
package

December 25, 2022

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2021

What is life expectancy? And, even more important, what it isn't

What is life expectancy? And, even more important, what it isn't

r
101
demography

March 5, 2021

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2020

Show all data in the background of your faceted ggplot

Show all data in the background of your faceted ggplot

r
faceting
dataviz
ggplot2
trick

June 19, 2020

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2019

2018

Compare population age structures of Europe NUTS-3 regions and the US counties using ternary color-coding

Compare population age structures of Europe NUTS-3 regions and the US counties using ternary color-coding

r
demography
dataviz
rspatial

December 3, 2018

sjrdata: all SCImago Journal & Country Rank data, ready for R

sjrdata: all SCImago Journal & Country Rank data, ready for R

r
package
bibliometrics

September 23, 2018

Regional population structures at a glance

Regional population structures at a glance

r
dataviz
demography

July 21, 2018

Deep Catalan roots: playing with stringdist

Deep Catalan roots: playing with stringdist

r
demography

June 4, 2018

A perfect RStudio layout

A perfect RStudio layout

r
rstudio
trick

May 22, 2018

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2017

Data acquisition in R (3/4)

Data acquisition in R (3/4)

r
tutorial
data acquisition

December 10, 2017

Data acquisition in R (2/4)

Data acquisition in R (2/4)

r
tutorial
data acquisition

November 7, 2017

Data acquisition in R (1/4)

Data acquisition in R (1/4)

r
tutorial
data acquisition

October 17, 2017

Young people neither in employment nor in education and training in Europe, 2000-2016

Young people neither in employment nor in education and training in Europe, 2000-2016

r
faceting

July 18, 2017

Global convergence in male life expectancy at birth

Global convergence in male life expectancy at birth

r
demography

July 17, 2017

Accelerating ggplot2: use a canvas to speed up plots creation

Accelerating ggplot2: use a canvas to speed up plots creation

r
ggplot2

July 4, 2017

Colorcoded map: regional population structures at a glance

Colorcoded map: regional population structures at a glance

r
ggplot2
rspatial
dataviz
demography

June 30, 2017

Evolution of ice hockey players' height: IIHF world championships 2001-2016

Evolution of ice hockey players' height: IIHF world championships 2001-2016

r
sport

May 27, 2017

Subplots in maps with ggplot2

Subplots in maps with ggplot2

r
ggplot2
rspatial

May 25, 2017

Arranging subplots with ggplot2

Arranging subplots with ggplot2

r
ggplot2

May 22, 2017

Hacking maps with ggplot2

Hacking maps with ggplot2

r
ggplot2
rspatial

April 24, 2017

Who is old? Visualizing the concept of prospective ageing with animated population pyramids

Who is old? Visualizing the concept of prospective ageing with animated population pyramids

r
animaion

March 31, 2017

R, GIS, and fuzzyjoin to reconstruct demographic data for NUTS regions of Denmark

R, GIS, and fuzzyjoin to reconstruct demographic data for NUTS regions of Denmark

r
rspatial

March 16, 2017

Gender gap in Swedish mortality

Gender gap in Swedish mortality

r
demography

February 25, 2017

30 issues of Demographic Digest - the most frequent journals

30 issues of Demographic Digest - the most frequent journals

r
demography
bibliometrics

February 14, 2017

Male mortality in Russia and Japan

Male mortality in Russia and Japan

r
hmd
demography

February 6, 2017

Sex ratios in all countries from Human Mortality Database

Sex ratios in all countries from Human Mortality Database

r
hmd
demography

February 5, 2017

Hello R world post

Hello R world post

r

January 29, 2017

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