For presentation purposes, it can be useful to adjust the style of your axes and reference lines for readability. It’s all about the details.
Nathan Yau
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How to Customize Axes in R
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Antibiotic history and the winning bacteria
We take antibiotics. Bacteria dies, but some lives, evolves and develops a resistance…
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Try to win the lottery
The Powerball Lottery is big news in the United States right now. The…
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Visual breakdown of additives in food
In their book Ingredients, Dwight Eschliman and Steve Ettlinger explore additives in common…
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Simulate the world as an emoji system of rules
We tend to think of life in terms of cause and effect. Do…
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Colors from images in R →
A how-to to break down images into just their colors.
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Analysis of Love Actually
Forget about Shakespeare. Let’s look at a real classic: Love Actually. Somehow I…
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Causes of Death
There are many ways to die. Cancer. Infection. Mental. External. This is how different groups of people died over the past 10 years, visualized by age.
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An uncertain spreadsheet for estimates
A lot of data you get are estimates with uncertainty attached. Plus or…
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geomnet →
An R package for “Network visualization in the ‘ggplot2’ framework” by the folks at Iowa State.
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2015
This was the second year of doing FlowingData full-time and everything seems to be running smoothly. Also: I feel really old.
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Shakespeare tragedies as network graphs
Martin Grandjean looked at the structure of Shakespeare tragedies through character interactions. Each…
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Atlas of United States history
In a collaboration between the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond…
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Police violence incident data
There isn’t a complete government record for people killed by police, which is…
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The most misleading charts of 2015, fixed →
Suggestions. Not just snark.
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R growth on StackOverflow reigns supreme
Joshua Kunst did a quick analysis on tag usage on StackOverflow, the question…
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10 Best Data Visualization Projects of 2015
These are my picks for the best of 2015. As usual, they could easily appear in a different order on a different day, and there are projects not on the list that were also excellent.
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All known planets outside our solar system
Jan Willem Tulp, in collaboration with Visualized, shows all known exoplanets (currently 1,942…
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Tour of a million stars
The Online Star Register takes you through a delightful view of a million…
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Timelines show Star Wars character interactions
Remember when xkcd charted character interactions for fictional stories? Inspired by that and…
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