User talk:GlowstoneUnknown

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regression plots on 2024 Belgium poll page

Hello, I just saw that you updated the plots on the "Opinion polling for the 2024 Belgian elections" page and was just wondering how you made them since I like the way they look a lot more than the ones I was making previously for the page and would like to continue using the same style next time there would be a need to update them. Please let me know if you're willing to share the code you use or give me some info about it, no worries if not. Timsmsmsm (talk) 12:14, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Oh yeah, sorry about that, I forgot to link the code on those like I normally do, here's the link to the code I used. It's in R, and I like to use RStudio for this job. You just need to change the colours and amount of parties to match however many you're trying to do, swap out the DE.csv file for one that contains the polls for whatever election you want to generate a graph for, and change the dates for the specific election. I like to make copies of the ggplot file each pre-set-up for a different country/state. I'd be happy to send you a copy of those as well (if you'd like, I can give you the ones I already made for each of the Belgium graphs). I'll be honest, I felt a little bit bad replacing your files because it's clear you put a lot of work into them, but Gbuvn's opinion-polling-graph just looks better and more consistent with other opinion polling pages. Out of curiosity though, what did you use to make your versions of the graphs? GlowstoneUnknown (talk) 12:25, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello @GlowstoneUnknown, I would love to have your files for Belgium to update the French Wikipedia page. I tried to redo images myself with code from @Gbuvn but got errors. I am not comfortable using R. Cuspysan (talk) 15:15, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Alright, I'll prepare those files now, is there a preferred way for me to send them to you? i.e. email, Mega.nz link, etc.? GlowstoneUnknown (talk) 04:20, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Hello, a mega link is good. Please mention me so that I can be notified. Thank you Cuspysan (talk) 08:34, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Cuspysan Here's the link, I also supplied the CSV files I used, feel free to practice with the R files, and I can't recommend RStudio enough as an IDE for the programming language, it's been incredibly useful for me. MEGA GlowstoneUnknown (talk) 22:10, 11 March 2024 (UTC)