This week I’m describing my process behind a quick map. You can download the code at the end of this issue.
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Making a Quick, Custom Prevalence Map – The Process 139
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Send postcards of plots made in R
How many times have you made a plot in R and thought, “I…
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How to Make Ternary Plots in R, with ggplot2
When you want to compare between three parts of your data, ternary plots might be a good option. Here is how to make them.
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Introducing a New Course on Mapping Geographic Data in R, with ggplot2
I’m happy to announce a new course on mapping geographic data in R,…
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R graphics get modern text support, with ragg package
Thomas Lin Pedersen announced the ragg package, which makes font usage in R…
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Parsing a table from an image
Thomas Mock explains how to extract and parse data tables in image files…
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Turn images into LEGO builds in R
The brickr package in R by Ryan Timpe takes an image, converts it…
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How to Make Symbol-based Glyph Charts, with R Examples
Using geometric shapes as an encoding can provide another dimension to your charts.
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Making map art in R
If you can make maps in your software and customize the aesthetics, you…
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Presidential Plinko
To visualize uncertainty in election forecasts, Matthew Kay from Northwestern University used a…
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Friends sitcom transcript dataset
For your analytical perusal, Emil Hvitfeldt provides ten seasons’ worth of scripts from…
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How to Untangle a Spaghetti Line Chart (with R Examples)
Put multiple time series lines on the same plot, and you quickly end up with a mess. Here are practical ways to clean it up.
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Using a slime mold simulation for generative art
Slime mold are single-celled organisms that can work together to form multicellular structures.…
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How to Make a Spiral Chart in R
Using a spiral might not be the best way to encode data. But here’s how to do it anyway. Just in case.
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How to Make Animated Histograms in R, with ggplot and gganimate
Make them move to show a shift in distributions over time.
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How to Visualize Anomalies in Time Series Data in R, with ggplot
Quickly see what’s below and above average through the noise and seasonal trends.
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How to Flatten the Curve, a Social Distancing Simulation and Tutorial
Using R, we look at how your decreased interaction with others can help slow the spread of infectious diseases.
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R turned 20 years old
R turned 20 last week. The first public release of R was on…
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How to Visualize Hierarchical Graphs in R, with ggraph and tidygraph
Network graphs are a good way to find structure and relationships within hierarchical data. Here are several ways to do it.
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Scripts from The Office, the dataset
The decade is almost done. You’re sitting there and you’re thinking: “I wish…