With ever increasing sources of movement data from GPS in phones, animal trackers, and other devices I want to learn about visualizing movement. This post explores a dataset of caribou tracker collar GPS data which can be found on figshare. The first step in any project is to prepare the ...

There is so much to learn in the world of R. One thing that I want to learn more about is working with time series data. I’ve read a lot about the tidyquant package and its uses with time series data so that was top of my list to ...

When learning to code, I sometimes find it helpful to look at code other people have written for a similar task. How do they format their code? What tips and tricks can I take away? What was the logic they used to structure the code? I hope that this case ...

Though ggplot() makes beautiful graphics, I often find myself going back to old projects to find a template for how to set up the code to make ggplot() graphs. Here I will show you how to make a barplot in ggplot. Then we will look at some variants of the ...

Many people reach for ggplot for graphing but it is also a great tool for mapping. You have control to customize colors, scales, and themes from ggplot to make beautiful maps. Here we explore an example using the Berkeley climate data to map global temperatures in 1913 compared to a century ...

You probably learned to make a line graph back in high school (or even middle school!). But the ggplot R package can make these graphs come to life. Let’s take a look at how to do this. First, we need interesting data. For this post, we will use this ...