Why 52Vis? In case folks are wondering why I’m doing this, it’s pretty simple. We need a society that has high data literacy and we need folks who are capable of making awesome, truthful data visualizations. The only way to do that is by working with data over, ...

Per a suggestion, I’m going to try to find a neat data set (prbly one from @jsvine) to feature each week and toss up some sample code (99% of the time prbly in R) and offer up a vis challenge. Just reply in the comments with a link to a ...

Folks who’ve been tracking this blog on R-bloggers probably remember this post where I showed how to create a composite U.S. map with an Albers projection (which is commonly referred to as AlbersUSA these days thanks to D3). I’m not sure why I didn’t think of ...

I’m a huge fan of ProPublica. They have a super-savvy tech team, great reporters, awesome graphics folks and excel at data-driven journalism. Plus, they give away virtually everything, including data, text, graphics & tools. I was reading @USATODAY’s piece on lead levels in drinking water across America and saw ...

So, I (unapologetically) did this to @Highcharts last week: @hrbrmstr Your loss of words inspired this post!! https://t.co/3KO0BP0k0u @hadleywickham @ma_salmon @tdmv @bearloga @rushworth_a @awhstin— Highcharts (@Highcharts) March 18, 2016 They did an awesome makeover (it’s interactive if you follow the link): And, I’...

This is a follow up to a twitter-gist post & to the annotation party we’re having this week I had not intended this to be “Annotation Week” but there was a large, positive response to my annotation “hack” post. This reaction surprised me, then someone pointed me to this link ...

I caught this tweet today: INSTEAD OF WORRYING ABOUT HOW OTHER DATA SCIENTISTS USE 🕒 PERHAPS @WSJGraphics COULD SPEND THEIR 🕒 LEARNING DATAVIZ pic.twitter.com/xrP2eUhaaQ— Metrics Hulk (@MetricsHulk) March 14, 2016 The WSJ folks usually do a great job, but this was either rushed or not completely thought through. There’s ...

Subtitles aren’t always necessary for plots, but I began to use them enough that I whipped up a function for ggplot2 that does a decent job adding a subtitle to a finished plot object. More than a few folks have tried their hand at this in the past and ...

A friend, we’ll call him Alen put a call out for some function that could take an image and produce a per-row “histogram” along the edge for the number of filled-in points. That requirement eventually scope-creeped to wanting “histograms” on both the edge and bottom. In, essence there was ...

High resolution and SVG versions of the new R logo are finally available. I converted the SVG to WKT (file here) which means we can use it like we would a shapefile in R. That includes plotting! Here’s a short example of how to read that WKT and plot ...