Category: DataViz
Everything filed under DataViz.
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"…
Primary Plotting
My wife tricked me into a partial-weekend project to try to get all the primary/caucus results to-date on a map (the whole us). This is challenging since not all states use counties as boundaries for aggregate results. I'm still piecing…
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…
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…