Ozancan Ozdemir

Ozancan Ozdemir

PhD Candidate at Bernoulli Institute for for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. Machine Learning and Deep Learning Enthisuasist.

Programming Tutorials and Lecture Notes

2025

How to draw the Economist-style graph with ggplot2 in R?

28 minute read

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I think everyone agrees on the fact that the Economist magazine produces very-well designed graphics, sometimes the best in the world. The success behind their graph lies on the ability of explaining complex matters in a simpler way by employing traditional data visualization techniques such as line graph or bar plot. They put emphasis on the message they want to convey rather than the aesthetics of the graph itself. They also have a clear hiearchy in their plots and use colors, fonts and lines which represents the brand identity of the magazine.

The 10 Golden Rules of Time Series Forecasting

3 minute read

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Forecasting is more than just fitting a model. Here are 10 essential rules to ensure your time series models are robust, reliable, and realistic.

Tutorial for Developing an Advanced Stock Dashboard for the S&P 500 for the 2025 Posit Table Contest

7 minute read

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This tutorial breaks down the development of an R Shiny application titled S&P 500 Monitoring Dashboard for the 2025 Posit Table Dashboard. This app effectively combines interactive financial data visualization (plotly), beautiful data tables (gt, gtExtras), web scraping (rvest), and external API integration (riingo, ellmer/Gemini AI) within a custom, sleek dark theme. You can access the app through this link

Bddkr

9 minute read

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bddkR Tutorial: Working with Turkish Banking Data

How to draw a candlestick chart in R? - Both ggplot2 and plotly

6 minute read

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Candlestick charts are a type of financial chart used to depict the price movements of an asset over a specific period. Each “candlestick” represents a time frame—such as a day, hour, or minute—and displays four key pieces of data: the opening price, closing price, highest price, and lowest price within that period. The body of the candlestick shows the range between the opening and closing prices, while the wicks (also known as shadows) extend to the highest and lowest prices. If the closing price is higher than the opening price, the candlestick is typically colored green or left hollow to indicate a price increase. Conversely, if the closing price is lower than the opening price, it is colored red or filled to signify a price decrease.

R’da ggplot2 paketi kullanarak Türkiye Haritası Çizdirmek

15 minute read

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2018 yılında hazırlamış olduğum R’da ggplot2 ve maps Kutuphanelerini Kullanarak Harita Cizdirmek adlı yazımda, R’da ggplot2 ve maps paketlerini kullanarak harita çizdirmeyi anlatmıştım. Yıllar içinde oldukça fazla bu yazıyla ilgili mailler aldım, ancak aldığım son mailler bu yazıda kullandığım kodların, kullandığım veri kaynağı olan GADM platformunun paylaştığı veri içeriğini değiştirmesi nedeniyle istenilen sonucu vermediğine dairdi, o nedenle yıllar sonra bu içeriği güncellemek istedim. Bu içerikte de yine GADM de bu sefer JSON olarak paylaşılan verileri kullanarak bir Türkiye haritası oluşturacağız ve bir örnek üzerinden gradyan (gradient) renklendirmeler yapacağız.

Chat with LLMs on your R environment

3 minute read

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LLM provides many advantages to the users, especially for coding. Once user had to switch the windows from the coding environment to the browser to search for the solution. But now, thanks to the newly advancements, users can chat with the LLM and get the solution for their queries on the same coding environment in R.

Segmented Total Bar Chart in R with ggsegmentedtotalbar

2 minute read

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Kevin Flerlage, who is a data visualization specialist, suggested a great alternative to stacked bar plot on his blog. He called this new alternative “segmented total bar plot”. This R package ggsegmentedtotalbar implements this idea. The package is built on top of the ggplot2 package, which is a popular data visualisation package in R. The ggsegmentedtotalbar function creates a segmented total bar plot with custom annotations (boxes) added for each group. The height of each box is determined by the Total value associated with each group.

🎓 Lecture Records

  1. Introduction to R - Lecture 1
  2. Introduction to R - Lecture 2
  3. Introduction to R - Lecture 3
  4. Introduction to R - Lecture 4

📚 Books

  1. An Introduction to R and Basic Statistical Analysis with R
  2. An Introduction to ggplot2
  3. Yorumlanabilir Makine Öğrenmesi (Çeviri)

📰 Articles

  1. Yapay Zekâ Alanında Kariyer Nasıl İnşa Edilir? - Andrew Ng (Çeviri)

📄 Lecture Notes

  1. Hierarchical Modelling in R with examples

💻 R Programming

  1. How to draw a pie chart on map in R with ggplot2 and scatter pie? An example for Turkey
  2. Chat with LLMs on your R environment
  3. How to draw a candlestick chart in R - Both ggplot2 and plotly
  4. R’da ggplot2 paketi kullanarak Türkiye Haritası Çizdirmek
  5. Introduction to Data Visualization with ggplot2 (A Bootcamp material for SICSS 2023)
  6. Atatürk’ün Okuduğu Kitaplar
  7. How to Add a Fitted Line to a Scatterplot in R?
  8. How to make a Financial Times Plot with ggplot2 in R?
  9. calendR Kütüphanesi R Studio Programında Takvim Hazırlamak
  10. ARCH-GARCH Tutorial with rugarch package
  11. R Markdown For Class Reports
  12. Leaflet ile İzmir Metro Durakları Haritası
  13. gganimate Kütüphanesi ile ODTÜ İstatistik Bölümü’nün 2009-2019 Yılları Arasındaki Bölüm Kontenjanı, Başarı Sıralaması ve Taban Puanındaki Değişimin Görselleştirilmesi
  14. SunburstR Paketi ile 2019 Yılında Istanbul Büyüksehir Belediyesi’ne Ihbar Bırakan Ilçelerin Grafiklendirilmesi
  15. Creating Word Cloud in R and Tutorial using Istanbul Domestic Waste Data
  16. Visualization using plotly and Leaflet packages for Corona Disease
  17. ggplot2 Kullanarak R’da Türkiye Şehir Haritası Çizdirmek
  18. R’da oceanmap Paketi Kullanarak Deniz/Göl/Okyanus Haritası Çizme

🐍 Python

  1. Python'da GeoPandas Kullanarak Türkiye Haritası Çizdirmek