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Slopegraphs – The Quintessential Tufte GDP Example Revisited
If you're even remotely familiar with slopegraphs, then you'll recognize Tufte's classic 1970-1979 GDP chart example (click for larger…
Slopegraphs in Python – The Great Refactor
Despite being on holiday, I had a spare hour to refactor the code (@mrshrbrmstr was joining the 1% in the hotel spa). It's up on github and now sports a spiffy JSON-format config file. You now must execute the slopegraph.py script with a "…
Slopegraphs in Python – Attention to Detail
In the previous installment , a foundation was laid for "parameterizing" fonts, colors and overall slopegraph size. However, a big failing in all this code (up until now) was the reliance on character string length to determine label…
Slopegraphs In Python – colors, fonts & alignment
On the heels of last evening's release of Slopegraphs in Python post comes some minor…
Slopegraphs in Python
I've been a bit obsessed with slopegraphs (a.k.a "Tufte table-chart") of late and very dissatisfied with the lack of tools to make this particular visualization tool more prevalent. While my ultimate goal is to have a user-friendly modern…
ThinkStats … in R :: Example/Chapter 2 :: Example 2.1-2.3
As promised, this post is a bit more graphical, but I feel the need to stress the importance of the first few points in chapter 2 of the book (i.e. the difference between mean and average and why variance is meaningful). These are…