Category: DataViz
Everything filed under DataViz.
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…
(ggplot2) Exercising with (ggalt) dumbbells
I follow the most excellent Pew Research folks on Twitter to stay in tune with what's happening (statistically speaking) with the world. Today, they tweeted this excerpt from their 2015 Global Attitudes…
52Vis Week #3 - Waste Not, Want Not
The Wall Street Journal did a project piece a while back in the "Waste Lands: America's Forgotten Nuclear Legacy". They dug through Department of Energy and CDC data to provide an overview of the lingering residue of this toxic time in…
52 Vis Week #2 Wrap Up
I've been staring at this homeless data set for a few weeks now since I'm using it both here and in the data science class I'm teaching. It's been one of the most mindful data sets I've worked with in a while. Even when reduced to pure…
52 Vis Week 1 Winners!
The response to 52Vis has exceeded expectations and there have been great entries for both weeks. It's time to award some…
Beating lollipops into dumbbells
Shortly after I added lollipop charts to ggalt I had a few requests for a dumbbell geom . It wasn't difficult to do modify the underlying lollipop Geom s to make a geomdumbbell() . Here it is in…
geom_lollipop() by the Chartettes
I make a fair share of bar charts throughout the day and really like switching to lollipop charts to mix things up a bit and enhance the visual appeal. They're easy to do in ggplot2, just use your traditional x & y mapping for geompoint()…