Category: Data Visualization
Everything filed under Data Visualization.
Fear of WaPo Using Bad Pie Charts Has Increased Since Last Year
I woke up this morning to a headline story from the Washington Post on "Americans are twice as willing to distance Christian extremists from their religion as Muslims". This post is not about the content of the headline or story. It is…
Visualizing Survey Data : Comparison Between Observations
Cybersecurity is a domain that really likes surveys, or at the very least it has many folks within it that like to conduct and report on surveys. One recent survey on threat intelligence is in it's second year, so it sets about comparing…
An Ephemeral Update to daylight()
This occurrence of the bi-annual corruption of the space-time continuum (i.e. changing to/from standard/daylight time) in the U.S. caused me to make a slight change to the code from an older post. The daylight() function now auto-discovers…
Less Drama, More Encoding
Junk Charts adeptly noted and fixed this excessively stylized chart from the WSJ this…
Replicating NatGeo's "Proper" Earthquake Map in R
I saw this post over at NatGeo over the weekend and felt compelled to replicate…
For Some Definition of "Directly" and/or "Contort"
Junk Charts did a post on Don't pick your tool before having your design and made a claim that…
Roll Your Own Stats and Geoms in ggplot2 (Part 1: Splines!)
A huge change is coming to ggplot2 and you can get a preview of it over at Hadley's github repo . I've been keenly interested in this as I will be fixing, finishing & porting coordproj to it once it's…
Coloring (and Drawing) Outside the Lines in ggplot
Time for another Twitter-inspired blog post this week, this time from a tweet by…
Track Hurricane Danny (Interactively) with R + leaflet
Danny became the first hurricane of the 2015 Season, so it's a good time to revisit how one might be able to track them with…
Achieve Charting Zen With TauCharts
There was some chatter on the twitters this week about a relatively new D3-based charting library called TauCharts (also @taucharts). The API looked pretty clean and robust, so I started working on an htmlwidget for it and was quickly…