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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…
New viridis & colorbrewer palettes for ipv4-heatmap
It's no seekrit that I :heart: Hilbert curve heatmaps of IPv4 space. Real-world IPv4 maps (i.e. the ones that drop dots on the Earth) have little utility, but with Hilbert curves maps of IPv4 space many different topologies can be…
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…
New #rstats Podcast - R World News
Keeping up with R-related news on Twitter, GitHub, CRAN & even R-Bloggers (et al) can be an all-encompassing task that may be fun, but doesn't always make it easy to get work done. There is so much going on in the R community that we…
Pining for the fjoRds & monitoring SSL/TLS certificate expiration in R with flexdashboard
Folks have probably noticed that #52Vis has stalled, as has most blogging, package & Twitter activity. I came down with a nasty bout of bronchitis after attending rOpenSci Unconf 16 (there were so many people hacking [the sick kind] up a…
(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…
52 Vis Week #2 Wrap Up
I've been staring at this homeless data set for a few weeks now since I'm using it both here and in the data science class I'm teaching. It's been one of the most mindful data sets I've worked with in a while. Even when reduced to pure…