Author: hrbrmstr
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Making Static & Interactive Maps With ggvis (+ using ggvis maps w/shiny)
Even though it's still at version 0.4, the ggvis package has quite a bit of functionality and is highly useful for exploratory data analysis (EDA). I wanted to see how geographical visualizations would work under it, so I put together six…
Power Outage Impact Choropleths In 5 Steps in R (featuring rvest & RStudio "Projects")
I and @awpiii were trading news about the power outages in Maine & New Hampshire last night and he tweeted the link to the @PSNH Outage Map. As if the Bing Maps tiles weren't bad enough, the use of a categorical color scale instead of a…
Visualizing Historical & Most-likely First Snowfall Dates for U.S. Regions
The impending arrival of the first real snowfall of the year in my part of Maine got me curious about what the most likely "first snow" dates are for my region. The U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) maintains historical daily…
Moving The Earth (well, Alaska & Hawaii) With R
In a previous post we looked at how to use D3 TopoJSON files with R and make some very D3-esque maps. I mentioned that one thing missing was moving Alaska & Hawaii a bit closer to the continental United States and this post shows you how…
GRANITESEC X!!!
GRANITESEC X!!! — rud.is blog archive
Spending Seized Assets - A State-by-State Per-capita Comparison in R
The Washingon Post did another great story+vis, this time on states Spending seized…
Plot Me Like a Hurricane (a.k.a. animating historical North Atlantic basin tropical storm tracks)
Markus Gessman (@MarkusGesmann) did a beautiful job Visualising the seasonality of Atlantic windstorms using small multiples, which was inspired by both a post by Arthur Charpentier (@freakonometrics) on using Markov spatial processes to…
Blast From The Past Also Reveals A Bit Of (US) Postal HIstory
I saw a re-tweet for this "Man From Mars Radio Hat" advertisement and—while it's awesome as a bit of nostalgia on it's own—it also reveals a bit about our (US) Postal…
Overcoming D3 Cartographic Envy With R + ggplot
When I used one of the Scotland TopoJSON files for a recent post , it really hit me just how much D3 cartography envy I had/have as an R user. Don't get me wrong, I can conjure up D3 maps pretty well [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and the utility of an…
Seeing the (day)light with R
The arrival of the autumnal equinox foreshadows the reality of longer nights and shorter days here in the northeast US. We can both see that reality and distract ourselves from it at the same time by firing up RStudio (or your favorite…