Category: DataViz
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Trump's Incredibly Stupid War Sets Up Mainers For A Brutal Winter
Maine uses more heating oil per capita than any other state, which means every global distillate shock impacts Mainers more than most other states. The chart, above, captures three major spikes and some smaller…
Foliage 2023
The days are getting shorter and when we were visiting Down East Maine the other week, there was just a hint of some trees starting to change up their leaf palettes. It was a solid reminder to re-up my ~annual “foliage” plotting that I…
Using the new Plot Javascript Exploratory Visualization Library Sans-Observable
The fine folks over at @ObservableHQ released a new javascript exploratory visualization library called Plot last week with great fanfare. It was primarily designed to be used in Observable notebooks and I quickly tested it out there (you…
COVID-19 U.S. County Vaccination Tracker With An Observable Notebook Using Datasettes and {Plot}
Rather than continue to generate daily images with R, I threw together an Observable notebook that takes advantage of the CDC COVID-19 county data datasette (provided by Simon Willison) and the new {Plot} library (by the @ObservableHQ…
'data:' Scraping & Chart Reproduction : Arrows of Environmental Destruction
Today's RSS feeds picked up this article by Marianne Sullivan, Chris Sellers, Leif Fredrickson, and Sarah Lamdanon on the woeful state of enforcement actions by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). While there has definitely…
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…
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.…