Non-abstract Curry shot chart

Make a bunch of charts, string them together like a flip book, and there’s your animation. Sometimes good for showing changes over time. Always fun to play with.

You saw how to make basic heat maps a while back, but you might want more flexibility for a specific data set. Once you understand the components of a heat map, the rest is straightforward.

Something of a cross between a reference table and a map, the state grid provides equal space to each state and a semblance of the country to quickly pick out individual states.

R makes it easy to add squares and rectangles to your plots, but it gets a little tricky when you have a bunch to draw at once. The key is to break it down to the elements.

The American Time Use Survey recently released results for 2018. That makes 15 years of data. What’s different? What’s the same?

Maybe you’re starting to run low. Here’s how much you’ll need when you go to restock.

We use some names mostly for boys and some mostly for girls, but then there is a small percentage that, over time, switched from one gender to another. Which names made the biggest switch?

It was a rough year, which brought about a lot of good work. Here are my favorite data visualization projects of the year.