I caught this “gem” in the Wall Street Journal tonight: It’s pretty hard to compare store-to-store, even though it is fairly clear which ones are going-going-gone. If we want to see the relative percentage of each store closing and also want to see how they stack up against each other, then let’s make a column… Continue reading
I’m pleased to announce the inaugural release of my hrbrthemes (0.1.0) package on CRAN The primary goal of said package is to provide opinionated typographical and other aesthetic defaults for ggplot2 charts. Two core themes are included: theme_ipsum() – an Arial Narrow-based theme theme_ipsum_rc() – a Roboto Condensed-based theme. The Roboto Condensed Google Font comes… Continue reading
Once again, @albertocairo notices an interesting chart and spurs pondering in the visualization community with [his post](http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2016/06/defying-conventions-in-visualization.html) covering an unusual “vertical time series” chart produced for the print version of the NYTimes: I’m actually less concerned about the vertical time series chart component here since I agree with TAVE* Cairo that folks are smart enough… Continue reading
The NPR vis team contributed to a recent [story](http://n.pr/1USSliN) about Armslist, a “craigslist for guns”. Now, I’m neither pro-“gun” or anti-“gun” since this subject, like most heated ones, has more than two sides. What I _am_ is pro-*data*, and the U.S. Congress is so [deep in the pockets of the NRA](http://abcnews.go.com/Health/cdc-launched-comprehensive-gun-study-15-years/story?id=39873289) that there’s no way… Continue reading
This made the rounds on social media last week: Spiraling global temperatures from 1850-2016 (full animation) https://t.co/YETC5HkmTr pic.twitter.com/Ypci717AHq — Ed Hawkins (@ed_hawkins) May 9, 2016 One of the original versions was static and was not nearly as popular, but—as you can see—this one went viral. Despite the public’s infatuation with circles (I’m lookin’ at you,… Continue reading
I follow the most excellent Pew Research folks on Twitter to stay in tune with what’s happening (statistically speaking) with the world. Today, they tweeted this excerpt from their 2015 Global Attitudes survey: The age gap in social media use around the world https://t.co/0Dq1PcbExG pic.twitter.com/9HBM7gLxwR — PewResearch Internet (@pewinternet) April 17, 2016 I thought it… Continue reading
The Wall Street Journal did a project piece [a while back](http://projects.wsj.com/waste-lands/) in the _”Waste Lands: America’s Forgotten Nuclear Legacy”_. They dug through [Department of Energy](http://www.lm.doe.gov/default.aspx?id=2602) and [CDC](http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ocas/ocasawe.html) data to provide an overview of the lingering residue of this toxic time in America’s past (somehow, I have to believe the fracking phenomena of our modern era… Continue reading
Shortly after I added lollipop charts to ggalt I had a few requests for a dumbbell geom. It wasn’t difficult to do modify the underlying lollipop Geoms to make a geom_dumbbell(). Here it is in action: library(ggplot2) library(ggalt) # devtools::install_github(“hrbrmstr/ggalt”) library(dplyr) # from: https://plot.ly/r/dumbbell-plots/ URL