Collaborate Disseminate
I woke up to Axios’ “1 Big Thing” ridgeline chart showing the crazy that was the 2019 news cycle: and, I decided to reproduce it in {ggplot2}. Getting The Data First, I had to find the data. The Axios chart is interactive, so I assume… Continue reading Short Attention Span Theatre: Reproducing Axios’ “1 Big Thing” Google Trends 2019 News In Review with {ggplot2}
The latest round of the 2020 Democratic debates is over and the data from all the 2019 editions of the debates have been added to {ggchicklet}. The structure of the debates2019 built-in dataset has changed a bit: library(ggchicklet) library(hrbrthemes)… Continue reading September 2019 Democratic Debates Added to {ggchicklet}
The first U.S. Democratic debates of the 2020 election season were held over two nights this past week due to the daft number of candidates running for POTUS. The spiffy @NYTgraphics folks took the tallies of time spent blathering by each speaker/topic… Continue reading Make Refreshing Segmented Column Charts with {ggchicklet}
I’ve become a big fan of the {logspline} package over the past ~6 months and decided to wrap up a manual ggplot2 plotting process (well, it was at least in an RStudio snippet) into a small {ggplot2} Stat to make it easier to visualize various com… Continue reading Quick hit: Some ggplot2 Stat
I caught a re-tweet of this tweet by @harry_stevens: THREAD: I wrote a post on @observablehq about a map I made today. It shows a typical day in the life of a graphics journalist: You never know what problems you’ll have to solve on deadline! https://t… Continue reading Mapping Tornado Alley with R
Today’s RSS feeds picked up this article by Marianne Sullivan, Chris Sellers, Leif Fredrickson, and Sarah Lamdanon on the woeful state of enforcement actions by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). While there has definitely been overr… Continue reading ‘data:’ Scraping & Chart Reproduction : Arrows of Environmental Destruction
Nowadays (I’ve seen that word used so much in journal articles lately that I could not resist using it) I’m using world tile grids more frequently as the need arises to convey the state of exposure of various services at a global (country) … Continue reading Simplifying World Tile Grid Creation with geom_wtg()
After reading this interesting analysis of “How Often Are Americans’ Accounts Breached?” by Gaurav Sood (which we need more of in cyber-land) I gave in to the impulse to do some gg-doodling with the “Have I Been Pwnd” JSON… Continue reading ggplot “Doodling” with HIBP Breaches
IBM has a new set of corporate typefaces — dubbed “Plex” — and has released them with a generous open license. IBM Plex Sans is not too shabby: (that image was grifted from a Font Squirrel preview page) The digit glyphs are especially nice for charts and the font iself is just different enough from… Continue reading →
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As many folks know, I live in semi-rural Maine and we were hit pretty hard with a wind+rain storm Sunday to Monday. The hrbrmstr compound had no power (besides a generator) and no stable/high-bandwidth internet (Verizon LTE was heavily congested) since 0500 Monday and still does not as I write this post. I’ve played with… Continue reading →
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