>UPDATE: Since I put in a “pull request” requirement, I intended to put in a link to getting started with GitHub. Dr. Jenny Bryan’s @stat545 has a great [section on git](https://stat545-ubc.github.io/git00_index.html) that should hopefully make it a bit less painful. ### Why 52Vis? In case folks are wondering why I’m doing this, it’s pretty simple…. Continue reading
>UPDATE: Deadline is now 2016-04-05 23:59 EDT; next vis challenge is 2016-04-06! Per a suggestion, I’m going to try to find a neat data set (prbly one from @jsvine) to feature each week and toss up some sample code (99% of the time prbly in R) and offer up a vis challenge. Just reply in… Continue reading
Folks who’ve been tracking this blog on R-bloggers probably remember [this post](https://rud.is/b/2014/11/16/moving-the-earth-well-alaska-hawaii-with-r/) where I showed how to create a composite U.S. map with an Albers projection (which is commonly referred to as AlbersUSA these days thanks to D3). I’m not sure why I didn’t think of this earlier, but you don’t _need_ to do those… Continue reading
As I said, I’m kinda obsessed with the “nuclear” data set. So much so that I made a D3 version that’s similar to the R version I made the other day. I tried not to code much today (too much Easter fun going on), so I left off the size & color legends, but it… Continue reading
> UPDATE: For #rstats folks interested in what this might look like in D3, [take a gander](https://rud.is/b/2016/03/27/nuclear-animations-in-d3/) @jsvine (Data Editor at BuzzFeed) cleaned up and posted a [data sets of historical nuclear explosions](https://github.com/data-is-plural/nuclear-explosions) earlier this week. I used it to show a few plotting examples in class, but it’s also a really fun data set… Continue reading
This is a follow up to a twitter-gist post & to the annotation party we’re having this week I had not intended this to be “Annotation Week” but there was a large, positive response to my annotation “hack” post. This reaction surprised me, then someone pointed me to this link and also noted that if… Continue reading
>UPDATE: time spent per task factor order was wrong before. now fixed. I caught this tweet today: INSTEAD OF WORRYING ABOUT HOW OTHER DATA SCIENTISTS USE ? PERHAPS @WSJGraphics COULD SPEND THEIR ? LEARNING DATAVIZ pic.twitter.com/xrP2eUhaaQ — Metrics Hulk (@MetricsHulk) March 14, 2016 The WSJ folks usually do a great job, but this was either… Continue reading
It’s been a while since I’ve updated my [metricsgraphics package](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/metricsgraphics/index.html). The hit list for changes includes: – Fixes for the new ggplot2 release (metricsgraphics uses the `movies` data set which is now in ggplot2movies) – Updated all javascript libraries to the most recent versions – Borrowed the ability to add CSS rules to a widget… Continue reading