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A Shiny dashboard for visualizing Bike Share Toronto ride data

I have been a regular user of Bike Share Toronto for a number of years. Bike Share Toronto provides access to rental bikes located all around downtown Toronto. To use it, you simply pick up a bike at one station, and ride it to your destination. I originally used this service when it first launched in Montreal (called Bixi), and was glad to see it expand to Toronto, as well as other major cities around the world.

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A Shiny app for creating custom color bars

There has been a few odd times that I’ve needed to create a custom color bar for my figures. A really simple solution in R can be found here. Although running this in R is easy enough, one idea I had was to turn this task into an interactive Shiny app. So here it is… introducing Colour Bar Builder, a Shiny app for creating custom colour bars interactively. A demo is available on shinyapps.io.

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