207 search results for "animation"

Incorporating Preference Construction into the Choice Modeling Process

February 15, 2013
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Statistical modeling often begins with the response generation process because data analysis is a combination of mathematics and substantive theory.  It is a theory of how things work that determines how we ought to collect and analyze&n...

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Extracting the Epidemic Model: Going Beyond Florence Nightingale Part II

February 7, 2013
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Extracting the Epidemic Model: Going Beyond Florence Nightingale Part II

This is the second of a two part reexamination of Florence Nightingale's data visualization based on her innovative cam diagrams (my term) shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Nightingale's original cam diagrams (click to enlarge)

Recap

In Part I, I showed that FN applied sectoral areas, rather than a pie chart or...

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Landmine detection revisited; the inverse unicorn problem

February 4, 2013
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Landmine detection revisited; the inverse unicorn problem

A couple weeks ago I wrote about an interesting idea to clear landmines using the power of the wind. A reader asked me to comment more on the value of using these wind-powered “Kafons” to do an initial assay of a suspected minefield, an idea I mentioned at the end of my video on the

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US Daily Gun Deaths R Animation – Sandy Hook

January 31, 2013
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US Daily Gun Deaths R Animation – Sandy Hook

R script# Listenning to NPR about gun deaths in the US got me thinking.# Find the article here:# http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2012/12/gun_death_tally_every_american_gun_death_since_newtown_sandy_hook_shooting.html# Let's create...

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Animated graphs, another alternative for Data Visualization

January 24, 2013
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Animated graphs, another alternative for Data Visualization

The world of Data Visualization offers infinite variants to display our Data. However, there is still some reluctance in exploiting all the possibilities that computers give us nowadays in this field, probably not because of a rejection of novelties but … Continue reading

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2013-1 TimingManager: Animation Sequences in JavaScript

January 8, 2013
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The TimingManager library is a tool written in JavaScript used to apply animations in a web browser. It is not concerned with creation or modification of animation timing information, and delegates those tasks to R via the animaker package. Primarily … Continue reading

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How to make your own 3-D sculpture with R

January 4, 2013
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How to make your own 3-D sculpture with R

We've mentioned before how you can use R to design 3-D objects. Now, thanks to the latest version of the rgl package, you can produce real-world 3-D objects with R as well. The rgl package has long made it possible to create virtual 3-D objects in R, and export them as animations like this: But now, package author Duncan...

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Producing animated GIFs and Videos

January 2, 2013
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Producing animated GIFs and Videos


It took me a while to figure out how to use the animation package on my Windows OS. In making an animated GIF, the problem seems to have been quite simple in the end (and I should have been more patient in reading the instructions!) - Following installation of the program ImageMagick, one has...

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R/iGraph Holiday network animation and How-to tips

December 17, 2012
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R/iGraph Holiday network animation and How-to tips

The animation embedded in this post was done using R and the iGraph package and was, frankly, a great deal more work than I thought it would be when I started. What kept me going was a desire to express a wish for the New Year while also experimenting with some functionality that might be

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2D MODPATH particle tracking animations with R and ImageMagick

December 14, 2012
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2D MODPATH particle tracking animations with R and ImageMagick

The PMPATH particle tracking output, with a file format similar to the pathline output mode of MODPATH (see above), can be transformed easily into a GIF animation using R and ImageMagick (see below for a simple example).First of all, you...

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