How to Make Unit Charts with Icon Images in R

By Nathan Yau

Make the unit chart less abstract with icons that represent the data, or use this in place of a bar chart.

About the Author

Nathan Yau is a statistician who works primarily with visualization. He earned his PhD in statistics from UCLA, is the author of two best-selling books — Data Points and Visualize This — and runs FlowingData. Introvert. Likes food. Likes beer.

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