{"id":3693,"date":"2015-09-30T09:21:34","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T14:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rud.is\/b\/?p=3693"},"modified":"2018-03-07T16:43:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T21:43:28","slug":"for-some-definition-of-directly-andor-contort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rud.is\/b\/2015\/09\/30\/for-some-definition-of-directly-andor-contort\/","title":{"rendered":"For Some Definition of &#8220;Directly&#8221; and\/or &#8220;Contort&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Junk Charts did a post on [Don&#8217;t pick your tool before having your design](http:\/\/junkcharts.typepad.com\/junk_charts\/2015\/09\/dont-pick-your-tool-before-having-your-design.html) and made a claim that this:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3694\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rud.is\/b\/2015\/09\/30\/for-some-definition-of-directly-andor-contort\/6a00d8341e992c53ef01b7c7d60168970b-300wi\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/6a00d8341e992c53ef01b7c7d60168970b-300wi.png?fit=300%2C380&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,380\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"6a00d8341e992c53ef01b7c7d60168970b-300wi\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/6a00d8341e992c53ef01b7c7d60168970b-300wi.png?fit=300%2C380&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/6a00d8341e992c53ef01b7c7d60168970b-300wi.png?resize=300%2C380&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"6a00d8341e992c53ef01b7c7d60168970b-300wi\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3694\" \/><\/p>\n<p>_&#8221;cannot be produced directly from a tool (without contorting your body in various painful locations)&#8221;_.<\/p>\n<p>I beg to differ.<\/p>\n<p>With R &#038; ggplot2, I get to both pick my tool and design at the same time since I have a very flexible and multi-purpose tool. I also don&#8217;t believe that the code below qualifies as &#8220;contortions&#8221;, though I am a ggplot2 fanboi. It&#8217;s no different than Excel folks clicking on radio buttons and color pickers, except my process is easily repeatable &#038; scalable once finalized (this is not finalized as it&#8217;s not 100% parameterized but it&#8217;s not difficult to do that last part).<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"rsplus\">library(ggplot2)\r\n\r\ndat <- data.frame(year=2010:2015,\r\n                  penalties=c(627, 625, 653, 617, 661, 730))\r\n\r\navg <- data.frame(val=mean(head(dat$penalties, -1)),\r\n                  last=dat$penalties[6],\r\n                  lab=\"5-Yr\\nAvg\")\r\n\r\ngg <- ggplot(dat, aes(x=year, y=penalties))\r\ngg <- gg + geom_point()\r\ngg <- gg + scale_x_continuous(breaks=c(2010, 2014, 2015), limits=c(NA, 2015.1))\r\ngg <- gg + scale_y_continuous(breaks=c(600, 650, 700, 750), \r\n                              limits=c(599, 751), expand=c(0,0))\r\ngg <- gg + geom_segment(data=avg, aes(x=2010, xend=2015, y=val, yend=val), linetype=\"dashed\")\r\ngg <- gg + geom_segment(data=avg, aes(x=2015, xend=2015, y=val, yend=last), color=\"steelblue\")\r\ngg <- gg + geom_point(data=avg, aes(x=2015, y=val), shape=4, size=3)\r\ngg <- gg + geom_text(data=avg, aes(x=2015, y=val), label=\"5-Yr\\nAvg\", size=2.5, hjust=-0.3)\r\ngg <- gg + geom_point(data=avg, aes(x=2015, y=700), shape=17, col=\"steelblue\")\r\ngg <- gg + geom_point(data=avg, aes(x=2015, y=730), shape=4, size=3)\r\ngg <- gg + labs(x=NULL, y=\"Number of Penalties\", \r\n                title=\"NFL Penalties Jumped 15% in the\\nFirst 3 Weeks of the 2015 Season\\n\")\r\ngg <- gg + theme_bw()\r\ngg <- gg + theme(panel.grid.minor=element_blank())\r\ngg <- gg + theme(panel.grid.major.x=element_blank())\r\ngg <- gg + theme(panel.grid.major.y=element_line(color=\"white\"))\r\ngg <- gg + theme(panel.background=element_rect(fill=\"#f3f2f7\"))\r\ngg <- gg + theme(axis.ticks=element_blank())\r\ngg<\/pre>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3695\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rud.is\/b\/2015\/09\/30\/for-some-definition-of-directly-andor-contort\/forblog-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/forblog-1.png?fit=1344%2C960&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1344,960\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"forblog-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/forblog-1.png?fit=510%2C364&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/forblog-1.png?resize=510%2C364&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"forblog-1\" width=\"510\" height=\"364\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3695\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Junk Charts did a post on [Don&#8217;t pick your tool before having your design](http:\/\/junkcharts.typepad.com\/junk_charts\/2015\/09\/dont-pick-your-tool-before-having-your-design.html) and made a claim that this: _&#8221;cannot be produced directly from a tool (without contorting your body in various painful locations)&#8221;_. I beg to differ. With R &#038; ggplot2, I get to both pick my tool and design at the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[678,673,674,753,91],"tags":[810],"class_list":["post-3693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data-visualization","category-datavis-2","category-dataviz","category-ggplot","category-r","tag-post"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>For Some Definition of &quot;Directly&quot; and\/or &quot;Contort&quot; - rud.is<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rud.is\/b\/2015\/09\/30\/for-some-definition-of-directly-andor-contort\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"For Some Definition of &quot;Directly&quot; and\/or &quot;Contort&quot; - rud.is\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Junk Charts did a post on [Don&#8217;t pick your tool before having your design](http:\/\/junkcharts.typepad.com\/junk_charts\/2015\/09\/dont-pick-your-tool-before-having-your-design.html) and made a claim that this: _&#8221;cannot be produced directly from a tool (without contorting your body in various painful locations)&#8221;_. 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