Category: data wrangling
Everything filed under data wrangling.
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…
Introducing a Weekly R / Python / JS / etc Vis Challenge!
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 the comments with a link to a…
Easier Composite U.S. Choropleths with albersusa
Folks who've been tracking this blog on R-bloggers probably remember this post 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…
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…
Cobble XPath Interactively with the xmlview Package
(If you don't know what XML is, you should probably read a primer before reading this…