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Fixing Colors & Proportions in Jerusalem Post Election Graphics
Vis expert Naomi Robbins did an excellent critique of the graphics that went along with an article on Israeli election in the Jerusalem…
Making waffle charts in R (with the new 'waffle' package)
My disdain for pie charts is fairly well-known, but I do concede that there are times one needs to communicate parts of a whole graphically verses using just words or a table. When that need arises, I'm partial to "waffle charts" or…
Simple Lower US 48 Albers Maps & Local (no-API) City/State Geocoding in R
I've been seeing an uptick in static US "lower 48" maps with "meh" projections this year, possibly caused by a flood of new folks resolving to learn R but using pretty old documentation or tutorials. I've also been seeing an uptick in…
Streamgraph htmlwidget version 0.7 released (adds support for markers & annotations)
In preparation for using some of our streamgraphs for production (PDF/print) graphics, I ended up having to hand-edit labels in on one of the graphics in an Adobe product. This bumped up the priority on adding annotation functions to the…
New R Package - ipapi (IP/Domain Geolocation)
I noticed that the @rOpenSci folks had an interface to ip-api.com on their ToDo list so I whipped up a small R package to fill said…
Streamgraph package now supports continuous x axis scale
A post on StackOverflow asked about using a continuous variable for the x-axis (vs dates) in my streamgraph package. While I provided a workaround for the question, it helped me bump up the priority for adding support for continuous x axis…
Introducing the streamgraph htmlwidget R Package
We were looking for a different type of visualization for a project at work this past week and my thoughts immediately gravitated towards streamgraphs. The TLDR on streamgraphs is they they are generalized versions of stacked area graphs…
SweetheaRstats
I felt compelled to dust off my 2013 Valentine's Day #rstats post and make it all Shiny and new again. I used the same math from that post, but made the polygon a bit sharper and used ggplot2 for the…
A Step to the Right in R Assignments
I received an out-of-band question on the use of %<>% in my CDC FluView post, and took the opportunity to address it in a broader, public…
New release (0.7) of metricsgraphics htmlwidget — grids & rollovers
I've updated my metricsgraphics package to version 0.7. The core MetricsGraphics JavaScript library has been updated to version 2.1.0 (from 1.1.0). Two blog-worthy features since releasing version 0.5 are mjsgrid (which is a…