Category: ggplot
Everything filed under ggplot.
'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…
GeoJSON Version of CBC Quebec Ridings Hex Cartograms with Example Usage in R
The CBC covered the recent (as of the original post-time on this blog entry) Quebec elections and used a well-crafted hex grid map to display…
Simplifying World Tile Grid Creation with geom_wtg()
Nowadays (I've seen that word used so much in journal articles lately that I could not resist using it) I'm using world tile grids more frequently as the need arises to convey the state of exposure of various services at a global (country)…
ggplot "Doodling" with HIBP Breaches
After reading this interesting analysis of "How Often Are Americans' Accounts Breached?" by Gaurav Sood (which we need more of in cyber-land) I gave in to the impulse to do some gg-doodling with the "Have I Been Pwnd" JSON data he…
New IBM Plex Sans Support in hrbrthemes + Automating Axis Text Justification
IBM has a new set of corporate typefaces --- dubbed "Plex" --- and has released them with a generous open license. IBM Plex Sans is not too…
gg_tweet'ing Power Outages
As many folks know, I live in semi-rural Maine and we were hit pretty hard with a wind+rain storm Sunday to Monday. The hrbrmstr compound had no power (besides a generator) and no stable/high-bandwidth internet (Verizon LTE was heavily…
Mapping Fall Foliage with sf
I was socially engineered by @yoniceedee into creating today's post due to being prodded with this…
Plot the Vote: Making U.S. Senate & House Cartograms in R
Political machinations are a tad insane in the U.S. these days & I regularly hit up @ProPublica & @GovTrack sites (& sub to the GovTrack e-mail updates) as I try to be an informed citizen, especially since I've got a Senator and…
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…
Come Fly With Me (well, not really) — Comparing Involuntary Disembarking Rates Across U.S. Airlines in R
By now, word of the forcible deplanement of a medical professional by United has reached even the remotest of outposts in the #rstats universe. Since the news brought this practice to global attention, I found some aggregate U.S. Gov data…