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52 Vis Week 1 Winners!
The response to 52Vis has exceeded expectations and there have been great entries for both weeks. It's time to award some…
Beating lollipops into dumbbells
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 Geom s to make a geomdumbbell() . Here it is in…
Clandestine DNS lookups with gdns
Google recently announced their DNS-over-HTTPS API, which "enhances privacy and security between a client and a recursive resolver, and complements DNSSEC to provide end-to-end authenticated DNS lookups". The REST API they provided was…
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 D3
As I said, I'm kinda obsessed with the "nuclear" data set. So much so that I made a D3 version that's similar to the R version I made the other day. I tried not to code much today (too much Easter fun going on), so I left off the size &…
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…