Category: ggplot
Everything filed under ggplot.
U.S. Drought Animations with the "Witch's Brew" (purrr + broom + magick)
This is another purrr -focused post but it's also an homage to the nascent magick package (R interface to ImageMagick) by…
Bridging The Political [Polygons] Gap with ggplot2
The @pewresearch folks have been collecting political survey data for quite a while, and I noticed the visualization below referenced in a Tableau vis contest…
Making "Time Rivers" in R
Once again, @albertocairo notices an interesting chart and spurs pondering in the visualization community with his post covering an unusual "vertical time series" chart produced for the print version of the…
A Call to Arms[list] Data Analysis!
The NPR vis team contributed to a recent story about Armslist, a "craigslist for guns". Now, I'm neither pro-"gun" or anti-"gun" since this subject, like most heated ones, has more than two sides. What I am is pro-data, and the U.S.…
Your data vis "Spidey-sense" & the need for a robust "utility belt"
@theboysmithy did a \great piece\ on coming up with an alternate view for a timeline for an FT…
On Whether Y-axis Labels Are Always Necessary
The infamous @albertocairo blogged about a nice interactive piece on German company tax avoidance by @ProPublica. Here's a snapshot of their interactive…
Global Temperature Change in R & D3 (without the vertigo)
One of the original versions was static and was not nearly as popular, but—as you can see—this one went…
(ggplot2) Exercising with (ggalt) dumbbells
I follow the most excellent Pew Research folks on Twitter to stay in tune with what's happening (statistically speaking) with the world. Today, they tweeted this excerpt from their 2015 Global Attitudes…
52Vis Week #3 - Waste Not, Want Not
The Wall Street Journal did a project piece a while back in the "Waste Lands: America's Forgotten Nuclear Legacy". They dug through Department of Energy and CDC data to provide an overview of the lingering residue of this toxic time in…
Beating lollipops into dumbbells
Shortly after I added lollipop charts to ggalt I had a few requests for a dumbbell geom . It wasn't difficult to do modify the underlying lollipop Geom s to make a geomdumbbell() . Here it is in…