Category: DataViz
Everything filed under DataViz.
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…
A Package Full o' Pirates & Makin' Interactive Pirate Maps in arrrrrRstats
Avast, me hearties! It's time four t' annual International Talk Like a Pirate Day #rstats…
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…
Making Static/Interactive Voronoi Map Layers In ggplot/leaflet
Despite having shown various ways to overcome D3 cartographic envy , there are always more examples that can cause the green monster to rear it's ugly…