Category Archives: visualization

Math Notation for R Plot Titles: expression, bquote, & Greek Letters

Posted on March 15, 2018 by tylerrinker

In this post you will learn: How to create expressions that have mixed (1) strings, (2) expressions, (3) variables & (4) Greek letters How to pass in values as variables to an expression I wanted to name this post “Ahhhhhhhhhhh #$@%&!!!!” … Continue reading →

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Ordering Categories within ggplot2 Facets

Posted on December 23, 2016 by tylerrinker

I saw Simon Jackson’s recent blog post regarding ordering categories within facets. He proposed a way of dealing with the problem of ordering variables shared across facets within facets. This problem becomes apparent in text analysis where words are shared … Continue reading →

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How do I re-arrange??: Ordering a plot re-revisited

Posted on March 3, 2016 by tylerrinker

Several years back I wrote a two part blog series in response to seeing questions about plotting and reordering on list serves, talkstats.com, and stackoverflow.  Part I discussed the basics of reordering plots by reordering factor levels.  The essential gist was: … Continue reading →

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Shape File Selfies in ggplot2

Posted on April 12, 2014 by tylerrinker

In this post you will learn how to: Create your own quasi-shape file Plot your homemade quasi-shape file in ggplot2 Add an external svg/ps graphic to a plot Change a grid grob's color and alpha *Note get simple .md version … Continue reading →

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Sochi Olympic Medals

Posted on February 9, 2014 by tylerrinker

For those who are addicted to R and haven’t the time to click the mouse on a web browser you too can still be informed about the results of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. I was inspired by a SO … Continue reading →

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Sentence Drawing: Part II

Posted on December 24, 2013 by tylerrinker

In a recent blog post I introduced Stefanie Posavec‘s Sentence Drawings. We created this ggplot2 rendition: We left off weighing the aesthetics of the Sentence Drawing with information of quality visualizations. I asked others to think of ways to display … Continue reading →

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Sentence Drawing: Function vs. Art

Posted on December 8, 2013 by tylerrinker

I recently was reading the book “Functional Art” and came across the work of Stefanie Posavec. Her Sentence Drawings (click here to see and click here to learn) caught my attention. Here is a ggplot2 rendition: From what I understand … Continue reading →

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How do I re-arrange??: Ordering a plot revisited

Posted on August 14, 2013 by tylerrinker

Back in October of last year I wrote a blog post about reordering/rearanging plots. This was, and continues to be, a frequent question on list serves and R help sites. In light of my recent studies/presenting on The Mechanics of … Continue reading →

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ggplot2 Choropleth of Supreme Court Decisions: A Tutorial

Posted on July 5, 2013 by tylerrinker

I don't do much GIS but I like to. It's rather enjoyable and involves a tremendous skill set. Often you will find your self grabbing data sets from some site, scraping, data cleaning and reshaping, and graphing. On the ride … Continue reading →

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The Mechanics of Data Visualization

Posted on July 2, 2013 by tylerrinker

I recently presented about the mechanics of data visualization at the CLaRI Literacy Conference to a group of researchers, teachers and school administrators. The presentation is based on the work of Few (2012; 2009). While the presentation itself is not about … Continue reading →

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