Tag 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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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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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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Animations Understood

Posted on May 11, 2013 by tylerrinker

When I first saw a graphic made from Yihui’s animation package (Xie, 2013) I was amazed at the magic and thought “I could never do that”. Passage of time… One night I found myself bored and as usual avoiding work. … Continue reading →

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Gradient Word Clouds

Posted on November 13, 2012 by tylerrinker

I like word clouds because they are visually appealing and provide a ton of information in a small space. Ever since I saw Drew Conway’s post (LINK) I have been looking for ways to improve word clouds. One of the … Continue reading →

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Splitting and Combining R pdf Graphics

Posted on October 8, 2012 by tylerrinker

A question that often comes across various help lists is how to combine or split an output from an R graphics device. Maybe you have looped/combined multiple visuals into a single pdf to avoid cluttering your working directory and now … Continue reading →

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