Category: Data Visualization
Everything filed under Data Visualization.
Stacking the deck against treemaps
They did an awesome makeover (it's interactive if you follow the…
Supreme Annotations
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 having to do subtitles via hacks…
Spinning Cycles in Box #4 To Take the Pies out of Pi Day
\>UPDATE: time spent per task factor order was wrong before. now…
Some Light Image Processing & Creation With R
A friend, we'll call him Alen put a call out for some function that could take an image and produce a per-row "histogram" along the edge for the number of filled-in points. That requirement eventually scope-creeped to wanting "histograms"…
A Tale of Two Charting Paradigms: Vega-Lite vs R+ggplot2
This post comes hot off the heels of the nigh-feature-complete release of vegalite (virtually all the components of Vega-Lite are now implemented and just need real-world user testing). I've had a few and seen a few questions about "why…
Create Vega-Lite specs & widgets with the vegalite package
Vega-Lite 1.0 was released this past week. I had been meaning to play with it for a while but I've been burned before by working with unstable APIs and was waiting for this to bake to a stable release. Thankfully, there were no new shows…
The Force: Accounted, in R
Despite being a cybersecurity professional, it's pretty easy to social engineer…
Zellingenach: A visual exploration of the spatial patterns in the endings of German town and village names in R
Moritz Stefaner started off 2016 with a very spiffy post on "a visual exploration of the spatial patterns in the endings of German town and village names". Moritz was exploring some new data processing & visualization tools for the post,…
World Map Panel Plots with ggplot2 2.0 & ggalt
James Austin (@awhstin) made some #spiffy 4-panel maps with base R graphics but also posited he didn't use ggplot2…
Update to metricsgraphics 0.9.0 (now on CRAN)
It's been a while since I've updated my metricsgraphics package. The hit list for changes…