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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/02/catterplots-plots-with-cats.html"> Revolutions</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
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<p>As a devotee of <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi">Tufte</a>, I'm generally against <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartjunk">chartjunk</a>. Graphical elements that obscure interpretation of the data <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://eagereyes.org/criticism/chart-junk-considered-useful-after-all">occasionally have a useful role to play</a>, but more often than not that role is to entertain the expense of enlightenment, or worse, to actively mislead. So it's with mixed feelings that I refer you to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/Gibbsdavidl/CatterPlots">catterplots</a>, an R package by David Gibbs to create scatterplots using outlines of cats as the symbols.</p>
<p>But hey, it's the Friday before a long weekend, so here's a poorly annotated catterplot of households with dogs vs households with cats in the 48 continental US states (plus DC):</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://revolution-computing.typepad.com/.a/6a010534b1db25970b01b8d2614e0c970c-pi"><img title="Rplot" alt="Rplot" src="http://revolution-computing.typepad.com/.a/6a010534b1db25970b01b8d2614e0c970c-800wi" border="0"></a></p>
<p>The <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://data.world/datanerd/cat-vs-dog-popularity-in-u-s">data behind this chart</a> I found at <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://data.world/">data.world</a>, which looks to be an interesting new resource for data sets. (Registration is required to download data, however.) The code behind the chart is below. (If you want a variant featuring <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4">Nyan Cat</a>, try <code>cat=11</code>.)</p>
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<pre>dogscats <span>&lt;-</span> catplot(dogs, cats, size<span>=</span><span>0.1</span>, catcolor<span>=</span>c(<span>0.7</span>,<span>0.7</span>,<span>0.7</span>,<span>1</span>),
                    cat<span>=</span><span>3</span>,
                    xlab<span>=</span><span>&quot;Households with dogs&quot;</span>,
                    ylab<span>=</span><span>&quot;Households with cats&quot;</span>,
                    main<span>=</span><span>&quot;Household Pet Ownership in US States&quot;</span>)
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<p>The catterplot package is available for on GitHub at the link below.</p>
<p>GitHub (GibbsDavidl): <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/Gibbsdavidl/CatterPlots">Catterplots</a></p>
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