Beeswarm charts are useful to highlight individual categories or entities. Animating them can help highlight change over time.
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How to Make an Animated Beeswarm Chart
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Waves of distraction
I’ve been distracted lately, so instead of making regular charts, I’ve been making…
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Two.js for two-dimensional drawing and animation in modern web browsers
“Two.js is deeply inspired by flat motion graphics. As a result, two.js aims…
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Visualizing periodicity with animations
Pierre Ripoll provides several ways to visualize periodicity using animation. Moving dots, rotating…
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Break the chain
For The Spinoff, Toby Morris illustrates how individuals can break a chain of…
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How to Flatten the Curve, a Social Distancing Simulation and Tutorial
Using R, we look at how your decreased interaction with others can help slow the spread of infectious diseases.
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SVG and CSS animations, without JavaScript
Andrew Wang-Hoyer built over 200 animations on and off over two years. They…
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Printing money at the speed of various wages
Neal Agarwal used a money printing metaphor to depict differences in various wages.…
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Mapping the construction of railroads in America
For the Financial Times, Alan Smith and Steven Bernard traced the history of…
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How to Make Animated Visualization GIFs with ImageMagick
Using the library command-line gets you more flexibility to highlight the important parts of the data.
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Natural selection simulation
Using blobbies with varying traits such as size, speed, and food gathering ability,…
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Animation in visualization, revisited a decade later
Rewind to 2006 when Hans Rosling’s talk using moving bubbles was at peak…
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Playing the Distributions, Hypothetical Outcome Plots, Getting Closer to Real Life
Histograms for a general audience can be a challenge. I’m curious if building up the distributions over time can be helpful.
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How to Make Animated (GIF) Heatmaps in 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
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
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
Compare distributions side-by-side with a pyramid chart. Observe the change over the years by animating it.
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Understanding animated transitions in data visualization
Alec Barrett for TWO-N describes the benefits and some of the intricacies of…
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3-D tube chart of global CO2 concentration and 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
Sometimes it’s useful to animate the multiple lines instead of showing them all at once.