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Data viz. Day one.

Obviously the circumstances are terrible, and tragic events are unfolding — now across the entire globe. Nevertheless, I’m …
Last updated on Mar 29, 2020 1 min read

Embedding a 'flipbook mini' in an html document

Xaringan is a fantastic rmarkdown presentation tool from Yihui Xie which uses remark.js as its platform. (Yihui Xie has a lot to say …
Last updated on Mar 25, 2020 5 min read

Three classes of flipbooks (or "getting organized")

I kept sending links in e-mails to students for reference. Here’s the link for the data cleaning examples. Here’s the link for …
Last updated on Mar 21, 2020 4 min read

What the flipbook?!

At the end of January, I was lucky enough to present at the RStudio 2020 Conference about flipbooks and {flipbookr}. About a year …
Last updated on Mar 21, 2020 4 min read

A detailed flipbooks origin story (a collection of tweets)

At the RStudio Conference in 2020, I was lucky enough to introduce the {flipbookr} package in a talk. Within the presentation I talked …
Last updated on Mar 21, 2020 13 min read

Slow ggplot

This post has lots in common with previous posts on “the layered presentation of graphics”. It is about building up plots, but now with …
Last updated on Dec 31, 2019 2 min read data visualization, teaching

Visualizing Variance and Standard Deviation

So this wasn’t on today’s to-do list, but there seems to be a cash prize associated with this rabbit hole due to this tweet: I …
Last updated on Mar 29, 2020 4 min read

Layered Presentation of Graphics, revised

Here is my second post is about how to implement a layered presentation of a graphics. My previous implementation used the alpha …
Last updated on Sep 28, 2019 3 min read

Where should you declare aesthetics? Globally, or geom-by-geom?

Where should you declare aesthetics? Globally or in the geom_*() function? The answer to this question, in some sense is personal …
Last updated on Mar 15, 2020 2 min read

Wide data to long using the tidyverse (tidyr's gather function)

A wide data storage format is an efficient and compact way to store information. And this organization perhaps it makes data easier to …
Last updated on Aug 13, 2019 3 min read