Although time series plots and small multiples can go a long way, animation can make your data feel more real and relatable. Here is how to do it in R via the animated GIF route.
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A shroud of cold air descends on the U.S.
From NOAA, an animation showing a wave of cold during the Martin Luther…
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Ten years of cumulative precipitation
We’ve all seen rain maps for a sliver of time. Screw that. I…
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2012 political donations mapped over time
Following their animated and narrated visualization on political contributions over time, VisPolitics maps…
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Bike patterns
Jo Wood, a professor of visual analytics, visualized five million bike rides using…
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Animated political contributions
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Olympic rings as data symbols
Artist Gustavo Sousa used the Olympic rings as data indicators for statistics like…
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What planets would look like if they replaced our moon
Artist Brad Goodspeed imagined what the planets would look like if they were…
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Great Lakes currents map
Using the same tech Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas created to show wind…
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Evolution of the Formula One car, animated
Animator and illustrator Rufus Blacklock animated 60 years of Formula One race car…
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A year of global cloud coverage →
Jonathan Corum for the New York Times mapped cloud coverage from April 2011…
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World sentiment mapped, based on Wikipedia
Kalev H. Leetaru animated world sentiment over time, based on Wikipedia entries.
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Minecraft server connections
I’ve never played Minecraft, but maybe this map showing live server connections means…
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Easter spending patterns in Spain, animated
The MIT SENSEable City Lab, in partnership with BBVA, visualizes spending in Spain…
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A century of ocean shipping animated
Using hand-recorded shipping data from the Climatological Database for the World’s Oceans, history…
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Growing urban populations
In this simple interactive animation by Periscopic, in partnership with UNICEF, we see…
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Wind motion patterns animated
Nicolas Garcia Belmonte, author of the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit, mapped 72 hours of…
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Taxi migration in Manhattan
While we’re on the topic of things moving on a map of changing…
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Animation shows national migration patterns
Even Westvang uses tax return data to visualize migration patterns of 300,000 Norwegians.…
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Bird migration patterns mapped
Birds move. eBird shows us how.
Understanding patterns of bird occurrence at continental…