There are existing functions and packages to make heatmaps in R, but when the data is irregular, it’s worth going custom.
Nathan Yau
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How to Make a Heatmap with Irregular Bins in R
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Real space location of Star Trek and other science fiction
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Nobel Prize for research in global labor markets, using historical data
Claudia Goldin, an economist at Harvard, has won the Nobel Prize in Economics.…
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Mapping Israel and Gaza attacks
The New York Times is mapping rocket strikes, attacks, and ongoing conflict in…
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News organizations blocking OpenAI
Ben Welsh has a running list of the news organizations blocking OpenAI crawlers:…
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Following the path of the 2024 solar eclipse
There is going to be a solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. The…
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Anti-Aggregate
Look at individual data points separately and get more out of the small pictures.
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Tree rings to compare life expectancy in your state
The Washington Post goes with a tree ring metaphor to compare life expectancy…
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Scale of Sports Fields and Courts
Here are the major sports drawn at the same scale to help appreciate the differences between field and court sizes.
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Billion dollar natural disasters
For Bloomberg, Rachael Dottle and Leslie Kaufman go with the combo stacked area…
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Visual explanation of menstrual cycle length and variability
For the Apple Women’s Health Study, which uses cycle tracking data from iPhones…
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How Cause of Death Shifted with Age and Time in America
As we get older, our life expectancy declines. But when and how quickly the decline happens and how it happens has changed over the years.
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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, September 2023 Roundup
Every month I collect tools and resources to help you make better charts. Here’s the good stuff for September.
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Search the text in historical maps
The David Rumsey Map Collection has been home to tens of thousands of…
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Loneliness, life satisfaction, and time
For The Pudding, Alvin Chang examines loneliness through the lens of individual responses…
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Two maps with the same scale
When you compare two areas on a single map, it can be a…
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Evolution of beer
Beer dates back thousands of centuries, but it was not the beer we…
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Twitter slows competitor links
When you click a link on Twitter, you go through a Twitter shortlink…
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Calming Data
Chart-making provides a perspective that’s beyond my own, which can be calming.
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Crows might understand probabilities
Researchers at the University of Tübingen are studying crows’ abilities to understand statistical…