Little useless-useful R functions – Animating datasets

I firmly believe that animation and transition between different data states can give end-users much better insights and understanding of the data, than a single table with data points or correlation metrics.

With help of ggplot, gganimate, you can quickly create an animation based on your needs. This is a simple IRIS dataset example.

And the useless function with the transitions between the data points:

ggplot(iris, aes(factor(Species), Sepal.Length, colour = Species)) +
  geom_boxplot(show.legend = FALSE) +
  labs(title = 'Petal width: {as.numeric(format(round(frame_time, 2), nsmall = 2))}', x= 'Iris species', y =  'Sepal Length') +
   # transition_time(as.numeric(Petal.Width)) +
  transition_time(as.numeric(Petal.Width)) +
  ease_aes('sine-in-out') +
  enter_fade() + 
  theme_hc()

As always, code is available on the Github in the same Useless_R_function repository. Check Github for future updates.

Happy R-coding and stay healthy!“