Category: R
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geom_lollipop() by the Chartettes
I make a fair share of bar charts throughout the day and really like switching to lollipop charts to mix things up a bit and enhance the visual appeal. They're easy to do in ggplot2, just use your traditional x & y mapping for geompoint()…
52Vis Week 2 (2016 Week #14) - Honing in on the Homeless
In case folks are wondering why I'm doing this, it's pretty simple. We need a society that has high data literacy and we need folks who are capable of making awesome, truthful data visualizations. The only way to do that is by working with…
iptools 0.4.0 released into the wild (i.e. is hitting the CRAN mirrors today)
The iptools package—a toolkit for manipulating, validating and testing IP addresses and ranges, along with datasets relating to IP addresses—is flying through the internets and hitting a CRAN mirror near you,…
Introducing a Weekly R / Python / JS / etc Vis Challenge!
Per a suggestion, I'm going to try to find a neat data set (prbly one from @jsvine) to feature each week and toss up some sample code (99% of the time prbly in R) and offer up a vis challenge. Just reply in the comments with a link to a…
Easier Composite U.S. Choropleths with albersusa
Folks who've been tracking this blog on R-bloggers probably remember this post where I showed how to create a composite U.S. map with an Albers projection (which is commonly referred to as AlbersUSA these days thanks to…
Nuclear Animations in R
@jsvine (Data Editor at BuzzFeed) cleaned up and posted a data sets of historical nuclear explosions earlier this week. I used it to show a few plotting examples in class, but it's also a really fun data set to play around with: categorial…
Using ProPublica "statefaces" in ggplot2
I'm a huge fan of ProPublica . They have a super-savvy tech team, great reporters, awesome graphics folks and excel at data-driven journalism. Plus, they give away virtually everything , including data, text, graphics &…
Stacking the deck against treemaps
They did an awesome makeover (it's interactive if you follow the…
Hy-phen-ate All The Things! (in R)
I started coding this to see if it could be a "poor dude's 'syllabifier'" (NOTE: "dude" is gender agnostic and I am fully aware of the proper NLP terms to use but it's way more fun to make up words) to make it easer to turn my Zellingach…
Supreme Annotations
I had not intended this to be "Annotation Week" but there was a large, positive response to my annotation "hack" post. This reaction surprised me, then someone pointed me to this link and also noted that if having to do subtitles via hacks…