I’m uncontainably excited to report that the ggplot2 extension package ggalt is now on CRAN. The absolute best part of this package is the R community members who contributed suggestions and new geoms, stats, annotations and integration features. This release would not be possible without the PRs from: Ben Bolker Ben Marwick Jan Schulz Carson… Continue reading
Presented without exposition (since it’s a silly Geom) This particular ❤️ math pilfered this morning from @dmarcelinobr:
I had started a “52 Vis” initiative back in 2016 to encourage folks to get practice making visualizations since that’s the only way to get better at virtually anything. Life got crazy, 52 Vis fell to the wayside and now there are more visible alternatives such as Makeover Monday and Workout Wednesday. They’re geared towards… Continue reading
The rest of the month is going to be super-hectic and it’s unlikely I’ll be able to do any more to help the push to CRAN 10K, so here’s a breakdown of CRAN and GitHub new packages & package updates that I felt were worth raising awareness on: epidata I mentioned this one last week… Continue reading
Despite being in cybersecurity nigh forever (a career that quickly turns one into a determined skeptic if you’re doing your job correctly) I have often trusted various (not to be named) news sources, reports and data sources to provide honest and as-unbiased-as-possible information. The debacle in the U.S. in late 2016 has proven (to me)… Continue reading
The family got hit pretty hard with the flu right as the Christmas festivities started and we were all pretty much bed-ridden zombies up until today (2017-01-02). When in the throes of a very bad ILI it’s easy to imagine that you’re a victim of a severe outbreak, especially with ancillary data from others that… Continue reading
This is another purrr-focused post but it’s also an homage to the nascent magick package (R interface to ImageMagick) by @opencpu. We’re starting to see/feel the impact of the increasing drought up here in southern Maine. I’ve used the data from the U.S. Drought Monitor before on the blog, but they also provide shapefiles and… Continue reading
The @pewresearch folks have been collecting political survey data for quite a while, and I noticed the [visualization below](http://www.people-press.org/2014/06/12/section-1-growing-ideological-consistency/#interactive) referenced in a [Tableau vis contest entry](https://www.interworks.com/blog/rrouse/2016/06/24/politics-viz-contest-plotting-political-polarization): Those are filled [frequency polygons](http://onlinestatbook.com/2/graphing_distributions/freq_poly.html), which are super-easy to replicate in ggplot2, especially since Pew even _kind of_ made the data available via their interactive visualization (it’s available in… Continue reading