pie( table( whence.i.tweet )) qplot( whence ) + coord_polar() pie( log( table( whence )))+RColorBrewer ggplot (see below) plot( density( tweets.len )) qplot(... stat="density") + geom_density qplot(...stat="bin") + geom_text(...) tweeple tweep...
Posts Tagged ‘ Data Viz ’
Bare-bones intro to Plotting options in R
If you’re using base::plot in R for the first time (for example if you do plot(pima) or plot(faithful) (use ??pima if you can’t find the dataset)) you may have looked at ?plot (2 page help file) or ?par (12 page help file) to figure out what’s go...
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Look at just the first digit and the number of digits. science: 32914, 11566, 4989, 3743, 968, 814, 673, 482, 286, 2811 black and white: 1694, 1167, 1108, 988, 919, 639, 596, 591, 580, 544 lol: 22627, 18100, 17688, 14374, 13459, 12045, 4711, 3779, 36...
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Look at just the first digit and the number of digits. science: 32914, 11566, 4989, 3743, 968, 814, 673, 482, 286, 2811 black and white: 1694, 1167, 1108, 988, 919, 639, 596, 591, 580, 544 lol: 22627, 18100, 17688, 14374, 13459, 12045, 4711, 3779, 36...
Introducing the Lowry Plot
Here at the Health and Safety Laboratory* we’re big fans of physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) models (say that 10 times fast) for predicting concentrations of chemicals around your body based upon an exposure. These models take the form of a big system of ODEs. Because they contain many equations and consequently many parameters (masses of organs 
Pareto plot party!
A Pareto plot is an enhanced bar chart. It comes in useful for deciding which bars in your bar chart are important. To see this, take a look at some made up DVD sales data. set.seed(1234) dvd_names <- c("Toy Tales 3", "The Dusk Saga: Black Out", "Urban Coitus 2", "Dragon Training for Dummies", "Germination", "Fe 
Visualising questionnaires
Last week I was shown the results of a workplace happiness questionnaire. The plots were ripe for a makeover. Most obviously, the pointless 3D effect needs removing, and the colour scheme is badly chosen.
Sweet bar chart o’ mine
Last week I was asked to visualise some heart rate data from an experiment. ... The standard way of displaying a time series (that is, a numeric variable that changes over time) is with a line plot. ... The experimenters, however, wanted a bar chart. I hadn't considered this use of a barchart before, so it was interesting...
Goals per Game in MLS
I promised something related to Major League Soccer and here it is. Caveat: It’s not much. Why so sparse? (1) The data is a bit messy due to teams folding, expansion, name changes, etc. (2) I was backpacking all weekend and didn’t have time to work on this side project. Yes, I have a real 
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
