mapmate 0.0.2
mapmate is an R package for map- and globe-based data animation pre-production. Specifically, mapmate functions are used to generate and save to disk a series of global map graphics that...continue reading.
Category: ggplot2
The Power of ggplot2 in ArcGIS – The Plotting Toolbox
In this post I present my third experiment with R-Bridge. The plotting toolbox is a plug-in for ArcGIS 10.3.x that allows the creation of beautiful and informative plot, with ggplot2,...continue reading.
googleformr at Work: Pneumatic Road Tube Allegory
Steve Simpson (@data_steve) created the googleformr package to enable users to easily send information to a Google Form. It’s a nice way to send and securely store data via R...continue reading.
Box Plot as Goal Post
For as long as I have been working with water data, I wanted to construct a line graph superimposed on a box and whisker plot where the boxes show the...continue reading.
Learning R for Data Visualization [Video]
Last year Packt asked me to develop a video course to teach various techniques of data visualization in R. Since I love the idea of video courses and tutorials, and...continue reading.
Creating and Tweaking Bubble Chart with ggplot2
This article will take us step-by-step over incremental changes to produce a bubble chart using ggplot2 that looks like this:We’ll encounter the plot above once again at the very end after explaining...continue reading.
How do I re-arrange??: Ordering a plot re-revisited
Several years back I wrote a two part blog series in response to seeing questions about plotting and reordering on list serves, talkstats.com, and stackoverflow. Part I discussed the basics of...continue reading.
Why I use Panel/Multilevel Methods
I don’t understand why any researcher would choose not to use panel/multilevel methods on panel/hierarchical data. Let’s take the following linear regression as an example: , where is a random...continue reading.
How Predictable is the English Premier League?
The reason why football is so exciting is uncertainty. The outcome of any match or league is unknown, and you get to watch the action unfold without knowing what’s going...continue reading.
How to expand color palette with ggplot and RColorBrewer
Histograms and bar charts are almost always a part of data analysis presentation. If it is made with R ggplot package functions geom_histogram() or geom_bar() then bar chart may look like...continue reading.
Quick R tip: ggplot in functions needs some extra care
When building visualizations with ggplot2 in R I decided to create specialized functions that encapsulate plotting logic for some of my creations. In this case instead of commonly used aes function...continue reading.
ggplot2 Time Series Heatmaps
How do you easily get beautiful calendar heatmaps of time series in ggplot2? E.g:From MarginTaleI was impressed by the lattice-based implementation from Paul Bleicher of Humedica, which you can find...continue reading.
