Lukasz Piwek is chipping away at a collection of Tufte-style charts using R,…
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Tufte style charts in 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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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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Working with R at the New York Times
Amanda Cox from the New York Times was on the Data Stories podcast.…
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How to Make Variable Width Bar Charts in R
The code to create these bar chart variations is almost the same as if you were to make a standard bar chart. But make sure you get the math right.
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R is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success
Most people who use R on the regular learned the language in the…
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Length of the average master’s thesis
A while back beckmw found the average length of a dissertation for various…
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A Course for Visualization in R, Taking You From Beginner to Advanced
Where to start? What to learn next? Here’s a course to help take you from beginner to advanced.
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How to Make Dot Plots in R
It’s easy to draw dots. The challenge is to make them meaningful and readable.
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How to Make Line Charts in R
Learn to draw lines wherever and however you want, and you’ve got yourself some flexibility.
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htmlwidgets: Create interactive web charts in R
If you don’t want to bother with JavaScript but want to publish interactive…
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R Cheat Sheet and Guide for Graphical Parameters
You can customize graphics in R with
par()
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R site updated
The R site has a new face. It looked dated for years —…
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How to Make and Use Bar Charts in R
The chart type seems simple enough, but there sure are a lot of bad ones out there. Get yourself out of default mode.
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rvest: R package to scrape web data
Inspired by the Python libraries RoboBrowser and BeautifulSoup, the rvest package by Hadley…
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Loading Data and Basic Formatting in R
It might not be sexy, but you have to load your data and get it in the right format before you can visualize it. Here are the basics, which might be all you need.
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Choropleth Maps and Shapefiles in R
Fill those empty polygons with color, based on shapefile or external data.
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Working with Map Projections and Shapefiles in R
No need to settle for the mapping defaults in R. Apply map projections to show geographic data in a way most suitable for your work.
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Rising R usage in the sciences
R continues its growth, and usage in the sciences is no exception. Nature…