The @pewresearch folks have been collecting political survey data for quite a while, and I noticed the visualization below referenced in a Tableau vis contest entry: Those are filled frequency polygons, which are super-easy to replicate in ggplot2, especially since Pew even kind of made the data available via their ...

Once again, @albertocairo notices an interesting chart and spurs pondering in the visualization community with his post covering an unusual “vertical time series” chart produced for the print version of the NYTimes: I’m actually less concerned about the vertical time series chart component here since I agree with TAVE* ...

The NPR vis team contributed to a recent story about Armslist, a “craigslist for guns”. Now, I’m neither pro-“gun” or anti-“gun” since this subject, like most heated ones, has more than two sides. What I am is pro-data, and the U.S. Congress is so deep in ...

The infamous @albertocairo blogged about a nice interactive piece on German company tax avoidance by @ProPublica. Here’s a snapshot of their interactive chart: Dr. Cairo (his PhD is in the bag as far as I’m concerned :-) posited: Isn’t it weird that the chart doesn’t have ...

This made the rounds on social media last week: Spiraling global temperatures from 1850-2016 (full animation) https://t.co/YETC5HkmTr pic.twitter.com/Ypci717AHq— Ed Hawkins (@ed_hawkins) May 9, 2016 One of the original versions was static and was not nearly as popular, but—as you can see—this ...

I follow the most excellent Pew Research folks on Twitter to stay in tune with what’s happening (statistically speaking) with the world. Today, they tweeted this excerpt from their 2015 Global Attitudes survey: The age gap in social media use around the world https://t.co/0Dq1PcbExG pic.twitter....

The Wall Street Journal did a project piece a while back in the “Waste Lands: America’s Forgotten Nuclear Legacy”. They dug through Department of Energy and CDC data to provide an overview of the lingering residue of this toxic time in America’s past (somehow, I have to believe ...

I’ve been staring at this homeless data set for a few weeks now since I’m using it both here and in the data science class I’m teaching. It’s been one of the most mindful data sets I’ve worked with in a while. Even when reduced ...

The response to 52Vis has exceeded expectations and there have been great entries for both weeks. It’s time to award some prizes! Week 1 – Send in the Drones I’ll take this week in comment submission order (remember, the rules changed to submission via PR in Week 2). NOTE: WordPress seems ...

Shortly after I added lollipop charts to ggalt I had a few requests for a dumbbell geom. It wasn’t difficult to do modify the underlying lollipop Geoms to make a geom_dumbbell(). Here it is in action: library(ggplot2) library(ggalt) # devtools::install_github("hrbrmstr/ggalt") library(dplyr)   # from: ...

Google recently announced their DNS-over-HTTPS API, which “enhances privacy and security between a client and a recursive resolver, and complements DNSSEC to provide end-to-end authenticated DNS lookups”. The REST API they provided was pretty simple to wrap into a package and I tossed in some SPF functions that I had ...