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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …