Rewind to 2006 when Hans Rosling’s talk using moving bubbles was at peak…
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Animation in visualization, revisited a decade later
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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.
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Breathing Earth of vegetation
Using data from NOAA STAR, Nadieh Bremer creates a breathing Earth that shows…
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Legal Drinking Age Around the World
As you probably know, different countries have different legal age limits for drinking…
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Data visualization GIFs
The nice thing about animated GIFs for visualization is that they can get…
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Evolution of The New York Times front page
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
In the the last part of the four-part series, you make a longer animation with more data and annotate.
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Interpolate your data for animation in R
The tweenr package in R, by Thomas Lin Pedersen, helps you interpolate data…
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Majority minorities
We saw the changing percentage of white people in the United States and…
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Percentage of white people
Below is the estimated percentage of white population in the United States from…
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Continental drift, from 240 million years ago to present
Researchers modeled continental drift, going back 240 million years ago, on the scale…
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National drug overdose epidemic
Nadja Popovich for the Guardian delves into America’s drug overdose epidemic, starting with…
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Algorithms for the Traveling Salesman Problem visualized
The Traveling Salesman Problem is a popular puzzle that asks for the shortest…
