Show change over time and geography with smooth transitions.
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How to Make a Smoother Animated Growth Map in R
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How to Animate Packed Circles in R
Pack circles, figure out the transitions between time segments, and then generate frames to string together.
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Snow cover mapped using snowflakes
To show snow cover across the United States, Althea Archer for the USGS…
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New Visualization in R Course, and Other Updates
I have two course-related updates on FlowingData. First, there’s a new course on…
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Deleting your tweets with R
Twitter isn’t in a great place right now, so maybe you want to…
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Introduction to Data Science, an open source book
Introduction to Data Science, by Harvard biostatistics professor Rafael A. Irizarry, is an…
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How to Draw and Use Polygons in R
R provides functions for basic shapes, but you can also draw your own for maximum fun.
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RStudio changes name to Posit
RStudio, the company behind the IDE of the same name, are changing their…
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Introduction to statistical learning
An Introduction to Statistical Learning, by Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, and…
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How to Make an Animated Donut Chart in R
There are “better” ways to show proportions over time, but sometimes you just want an animated donut.
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Catching students cheating with R
Matthew Crump, a psychology professor who discovered high volume cheating in his class…
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R packages useful for sports analytics
If you’re into R and analyzing sports data, you’ll want to save this…
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Procedural dungeons in R
Matt Dray is developing a package in R that runs a text-based game.…
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How to Make Bubble Clusters in R
Represent individual counts with grouped units to make data feel less abstract.
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Ross Ihaka, co-creator of R, reflects on the language
NZ Herald talked to Ross Ihaka, one of the creators of R:
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How to Make Cartograms in R
While the reshaped geography doesn’t work all the time, the use of size to show data can be more intuitive in some cases.
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Colors for All, R package
If you use color as a visual encoding, you should make sure every…
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How to Make a Line Chart with a Color Gradient in R
Use color to reinforce or add another layer of meaning to a regular line chart.
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How to Make UpSet Plots in R, with ggplot2 and ggupset
A more readable alternative to Venn diagrams for when you have more than a few sets.
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A Quick and Easy Way to Make Spiral Charts in R
Now that we’ve discovered another way to annoy chart snobs, here’s how you can make your own spirals.
