Category: DataViz
Everything filed under DataViz.
New R Package: cdcfluview — Retrieve Flu Data from CDC's FluView Portal
NOTE If there's a particular data set from http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/fluviewinteractive.htm that you want and that isn't in the pacakge, please file it as an issue and be as specific as you can (screen shot if…
New R Package: metricsgraphics
Mozilla released the MetricsGraphics.js library back in November of 2014 (gh repo) and was greeted with great fanfare. It's primary focus is on crisp, clean layouts for interactive time-series data, but they have support for other chart…
Making Static & Interactive Maps With ggvis (+ using ggvis maps w/shiny)
Even though it's still at version 0.4, the ggvis package has quite a bit of functionality and is highly useful for exploratory data analysis (EDA). I wanted to see how geographical visualizations would work under it, so I put together six…
Power Outage Impact Choropleths In 5 Steps in R (featuring rvest & RStudio "Projects")
I and @awpiii were trading news about the power outages in Maine & New Hampshire last night and he tweeted the link to the @PSNH Outage Map. As if the Bing Maps tiles weren't bad enough, the use of a categorical color scale instead of a…
Visualizing Historical & Most-likely First Snowfall Dates for U.S. Regions
The impending arrival of the first real snowfall of the year in my part of Maine got me curious about what the most likely "first snow" dates are for my region. The U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) maintains historical daily…
Moving The Earth (well, Alaska & Hawaii) With R
In a previous post we looked at how to use D3 TopoJSON files with R and make some very D3-esque maps. I mentioned that one thing missing was moving Alaska & Hawaii a bit closer to the continental United States and this post shows you how…
Spending Seized Assets - A State-by-State Per-capita Comparison in R
The Washingon Post did another great story+vis, this time on states Spending seized…
Plot Me Like a Hurricane (a.k.a. animating historical North Atlantic basin tropical storm tracks)
Markus Gessman (@MarkusGesmann) did a beautiful job Visualising the seasonality of Atlantic windstorms using small multiples, which was inspired by both a post by Arthur Charpentier (@freakonometrics) on using Markov spatial processes to…
Overcoming D3 Cartographic Envy With R + ggplot
When I used one of the Scotland TopoJSON files for a recent post , it really hit me just how much D3 cartography envy I had/have as an R user. Don't get me wrong, I can conjure up D3 maps pretty well [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and the utility of an…
Charting/Mapping the Scottish Vote with R (an rvest/dplyr/tidyr/TopoJSON/ggplot tutorial)
The BBC did a pretty good job live tracking the Scotland secession vote, but I really didn't like the color scheme they chose and decided to use the final tally site as the basis for another tutorial using the tools from the Hadleyverse…