What is the best resource to learn an R package? Many R users know the almighty question mark ? in R. For example, type ?lm and you will see the documentation of the function lm. If you know nothing about a package, you can take a look at the HTML help...
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Animated Images of Arctic Sea Ice Extent Decline
This post shows how to download and animate a series of Arctic Sea Ice Extent images using R and the animation package. In my previous post, I showed how to download the daily arctic sea ice extent data and generate … Continue reading →
Three ways of visualizing the growth of Walmart
It's a wonderful thing when people make interesting data sets available to the public. When Thomas Jones wrote a paper in Econometrics about the growth of US retail giant Walmart, he made the data he collected about every Walmart store opening in history (location and date) available to the public. Since then, several people have used different techniques to...
R Script to Build Animation of Arctic Sea Ice Extent – Update 9/3/12
In my previous post I showed an animation of Arctic Sea Ice Extent from the 1980′s through August, 2012 (link). In this post, I show how to build this Arctic Sea ice Extent animated chart. Source Data The Arctic Ice … Continue reading →
Are career motivations changing?
The German news magazine Der Spiegel published a series of articles around career developments. The stories suggest that career aspirations of young professionals today are somewhat different to those of previous generations in Germany. Apparen...
Sigma motion visual illusion in R
Michael Bach, who is a professor and vision scientist at the University of Freiburg, maintains a fascinating site about visual illusions. One visual illusion really surprised me: the sigma motion. The sigma motion displays a flickering figure of bla...
An update on visualizing Bayesian updating
A while ago I wrote this post with some R code to visualize the updating of a beta distribution as the outcome of Bernoulli trials are observed. The code provided a single plot of this process, with all the curves overlayed on top of one another. Then John Myles White (co-author of Machine Learning for 
Animated GIF Annual Correlation of 48 Industries for 50 Years
Inspired by http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/08/06/chart-of-the-day-hft-edition/, I thought I would build on 48 Industries (Dendrogram Ordered) Over 50 Years, “Trend is Not Your Friend” Applied to 48 Industries, and 48 Industries Since 19...
Provincial Monthly Rainfall of the Philippines from WORLDCLIM
Preparing for a future conference on climate change, I downloaded and extracted average monthly rainfall in the Philippines from worldclim.org. Using maptools, raster, and animation package in R, I produced an animation of average monthly rainfall of t...
Animation basics for a vacation
Since I have a vacation this time I decided to implement some entertaining graphics. I have chosen to animate a Cassini oval.The task is can be accomplished using polar equation:The implementation of the animation is given by the following code:library...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
