Using the new Plot Javascript Exploratory Visualization Library Sans-Observable

The fine folks over at @ObservableHQ released a new javascript exploratory visualization library called Plot last week with great fanfare. It was primarily designed to be used in Observable notebooks and I quickly tested it out there (you can find them at my Observable landing page: https://observablehq.com/@hrbrmstr). {Plot} doesn’t require Observable, however, and I threw… Continue reading

R⁶ — General (Attys) Distributions

Matt @stiles is a spiffy data journalist at the @latimes and he posted an interesting chart on U.S. Attorneys General longevity (given that the current US AG is on thin ice): Only Watergate and the Civil War have prompted shorter tenures as AG (if Sessions were to leave now). A daily viz: https://t.co/aJ4KDsC5kC pic.twitter.com/ZoiEV3MhGp —… Continue reading

Global Temperature Change in R & D3 (without the vertigo)

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