Make sure you explain your visual encodings so that others can interpret them.
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Adding Legends in R
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Emergency room data in R
For my graphic on emergency room visits over time and the other on…
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How to Customize Axes in R
For presentation purposes, it can be useful to adjust the style of your axes and reference lines for readability. It’s all about the details.
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Colors from images in R →
A how-to to break down images into just their colors.
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geomnet →
An R package for “Network visualization in the ‘ggplot2’ framework” by the folks at Iowa State.
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R growth on StackOverflow reigns supreme
Joshua Kunst did a quick analysis on tag usage on StackOverflow, the question…
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rchess →
An R package for chess move generation and validation.
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How to Make an Animated Pyramid Chart in R
Make a bunch of charts, string them together like a flip book, and there’s your animation. Sometimes good for showing changes over time. Always fun to play with.
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tigris →
A package to help you download and map TIGER shapefiles in R.
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How to Make Bivariate Area Charts in R
Quickly compare two time series variables with this line-area chart hybrid that originated in the 1700s. Also known as: difference chart.
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R course material →
A small set of tutorials to learn the basics of R.
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Work with Google Sheets in R →
Use the googlesheets package to import data.
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How to Make Maps in R That Include Alaska and Hawaii
The conterminous United States always gets the attention, while Alaska and Hawaii are often left out. It is time to bring them back into view.
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sentimentr →
R package for sentiment detection.
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quartzFonts() →
Change graphic fonts with this R function in OS X.
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Tufte style charts in R
Lukasz Piwek is chipping away at a collection of Tufte-style charts using R,…
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How to Map and Use GeoTIFF Files in R
It’s like working with a bunch of tiny dots, and oh look, all of sudden patterns emerge.
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stringsAsFactors: An unauthorized biography →
In almost every tutorial on this site,
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How to Make Horizon Graphs in R
The relatively new and lesser known time series visualization can be useful if you know what you’re looking at, and they take up a lot less space.
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R Consortium for further development of community
The Linux Foundation announced the R Consortium to provide support to the R…
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