Once again, @albertocairo notices an interesting chart and spurs pondering in the visualization community with [his post](http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2016/06/defying-conventions-in-visualization.html) covering an unusual “vertical time series” chart produced for the print version of the NYTimes: I’m actually less concerned about the vertical time series chart component here since I agree with TAVE* Cairo that folks are smart enough… Continue reading
The NPR vis team contributed to a recent [story](http://n.pr/1USSliN) 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. Congress is so [deep in the pockets of the NRA](http://abcnews.go.com/Health/cdc-launched-comprehensive-gun-study-15-years/story?id=39873289) that there’s no way… Continue reading
@theboysmithy did a [great piece](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/6f777c84-322b-11e6-ad39-3fee5ffe5b5b.html) on coming up with an alternate view for a timeline for an FT piece. Here’s an excerpt (read the whole piece, though, it’s worth it): Here is an example from a story recently featured in the FT: emerging- market populations are expected to age more rapidly than those in developed… Continue reading
The infamous @albertocairo [blogged about](http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2016/06/propublica-visualizes-seasonality-in.html) a [nice interactive piece on German company tax avoidance](https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/dividend) by @ProPublica. Here’s a snapshot of their interactive chart:  Dr. Cairo (his PhD is in the bag as far as I’m concerned :-) posited: >_Isn’t it weird that the chart doesn’t have a scale on the Y-axis? It’s not the… Continue reading
This made the rounds on social media last week: Spiraling global temperatures from 1850-2016 (full animation) https://t.co/YETC5HkmTr pic.twitter.com/Ypci717AHq — Ed Hawkins (@ed_hawkins) May 9, 2016 One of the original versions was static and was not nearly as popular, but—as you can see—this one went viral. Despite the public’s infatuation with circles (I’m lookin’ at you,… Continue reading
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 survey: The age gap in social media use around the world https://t.co/0Dq1PcbExG pic.twitter.com/9HBM7gLxwR — PewResearch Internet (@pewinternet) April 17, 2016 I thought it… Continue reading
The Wall Street Journal did a project piece [a while back](http://projects.wsj.com/waste-lands/) in the _”Waste Lands: America’s Forgotten Nuclear Legacy”_. They dug through [Department of Energy](http://www.lm.doe.gov/default.aspx?id=2602) and [CDC](http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ocas/ocasawe.html) data to provide an overview of the lingering residue of this toxic time in America’s past (somehow, I have to believe the fracking phenomena of our modern era… Continue reading
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 Geoms to make a geom_dumbbell(). Here it is in action: library(ggplot2) library(ggalt) # devtools::install_github(“hrbrmstr/ggalt”) library(dplyr) # from: https://plot.ly/r/dumbbell-plots/ URL