Category: Data Visualization
Everything filed under Data Visualization.
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…
Shuttering Pies With Retiring Stores
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…
The Most Important Commodity in 2017 is Data
Despite being in cybersecurity nigh forever (a career that quickly turns one into a determined skeptic if you're doing your job correctly) I have often trusted various (not to be named) news sources, reports and data sources to provide…
Bridging The Political [Polygons] Gap with ggplot2
The @pewresearch folks have been collecting political survey data for quite a while, and I noticed the visualization below referenced in a Tableau vis contest…
Making "Time Rivers" in R
Once again, @albertocairo notices an interesting chart and spurs pondering in the visualization community with his post covering an unusual "vertical time series" chart produced for the print version of the…
A Call to Arms[list] Data Analysis!
The NPR vis team contributed to a recent story 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.…
Your data vis "Spidey-sense" & the need for a robust "utility belt"
@theboysmithy did a \great piece\ on coming up with an alternate view for a timeline for an FT…
On Whether Y-axis Labels Are Always Necessary
The infamous @albertocairo blogged about a nice interactive piece on German company tax avoidance by @ProPublica. Here's a snapshot of their interactive…
New viridis & colorbrewer palettes for ipv4-heatmap
It's no seekrit that I :heart: Hilbert curve heatmaps of IPv4 space. Real-world IPv4 maps (i.e. the ones that drop dots on the Earth) have little utility, but with Hilbert curves maps of IPv4 space many different topologies can be…
Global Temperature Change in R & D3 (without the vertigo)
One of the original versions was static and was not nearly as popular, but—as you can see—this one went…