animation

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How to Make Animated (GIF) Heatmaps in R

Tutorials / animation, R

Using color as the visual encoding, show changes over time in two dimensions.
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Uses for Animation in Charts and Animating Your Own Data

The Process / animation

Important question: Is animation in visualization even worthwhile? Well, it depends. Surprise, surprise. In this issue, I look at animation in data visualization, its uses, and how I like to think about it when I implement moving data.
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How I Made That: Animated Difference Charts in R

How I Made That / animation, R

A combination of a bivariate area chart, animation, and a population pyramid, with a sprinkling of detail and annotation.
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How to Make an Animated Pyramid Chart with D3.js

Tutorials / animation, d3js, pyramid

Compare distributions side-by-side with a pyramid chart. Observe the change over the years by animating it.
Understanding animated transitions in data visualization

Design / animation, transitions

Alec Barrett for TWO-N describes the benefits and some of the intricacies of…
3-D tube chart of global CO2 concentration and temperature

Statistical Visualization / animation, climate change, temperature

Because you can never have enough time series charts that show increases of…
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How to Make Animated Line Charts in R

Tutorials / animation, R

Sometimes it’s useful to animate the multiple lines instead of showing them all at once.
Breathing Earth of vegetation

Maps / animation, environment, vegetation

Using data from NOAA STAR, Nadieh Bremer creates a breathing Earth that shows…
Legal Drinking Age Around the World

Sketchbook / animation, drinking

As you probably know, different countries have different legal age limits for drinking…
Data visualization GIFs

Infographics / animation, GIF

The nice thing about animated GIFs for visualization is that they can get…
Evolution of The New York Times front page

Data Art / animation, New York Times, news

From Josh Begley, this quickfire flip book shows every New York Times front…
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How to Make an Animated Map in R, Part 4

Tutorials / animation, interpolation, R

In the the last part of the four-part series, you make a longer animation with more data and annotate.
Interpolate your data for animation in R

Coding / animation, package, R

The tweenr package in R, by Thomas Lin Pedersen, helps you interpolate data…
Majority minorities

Sketchbook / animation, population, R, race

We saw the changing percentage of white people in the United States and…
Percentage of white people

Sketchbook / animation, population, race

Below is the estimated percentage of white population in the United States from…
Continental drift, from 240 million years ago to present

Maps / animation, continental drift, geology

Researchers modeled continental drift, going back 240 million years ago, on the scale…
National drug overdose epidemic

Maps / animation, drugs, Guardian, health

Nadja Popovich for the Guardian delves into America’s drug overdose epidemic, starting with…
Algorithms for the Traveling Salesman Problem visualized

Maps / algorithms, animation, traveling salesman

The Traveling Salesman Problem is a popular puzzle that asks for the shortest…
Antibiotic history and the winning bacteria

Infographics / animation, antibiotics, health, Quartz

We take antibiotics. Bacteria dies, but some lives, evolves and develops a resistance…
Nuclear detonations from 1945 to present

Maps / animation, bomb, nuclear

There have been over 2,000 nuclear detonations since 1945. Orbital Mechanics mapped each…

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