This made the rounds on social media last week: Spiraling global temperatures from 1850-2016 (full animation) https://t.co/YETC5HkmTr pic.twitter.com/Ypci717AHq— Ed Hawkins (@ed_hawkins) May 9, 2016 One of the original versions was static and was not nearly as popular, but—as you can see—this ...

I follow the most excellent Pew Research folks on Twitter to stay in tune with what’s happening (statistically speaking) with the world. Today, they tweeted this excerpt from their 2015 Global Attitudes survey: The age gap in social media use around the world https://t.co/0Dq1PcbExG pic.twitter....

The Wall Street Journal did a project piece a while back in the “Waste Lands: America’s Forgotten Nuclear Legacy”. They dug through Department of Energy and CDC data to provide an overview of the lingering residue of this toxic time in America’s past (somehow, I have to believe ...

I’ve been staring at this homeless data set for a few weeks now since I’m using it both here and in the data science class I’m teaching. It’s been one of the most mindful data sets I’ve worked with in a while. Even when reduced ...

The response to 52Vis has exceeded expectations and there have been great entries for both weeks. It’s time to award some prizes! Week 1 – Send in the Drones I’ll take this week in comment submission order (remember, the rules changed to submission via PR in Week 2). NOTE: WordPress seems ...

Shortly after I added lollipop charts to ggalt I had a few requests for a dumbbell geom. It wasn’t difficult to do modify the underlying lollipop Geoms to make a geom_dumbbell(). Here it is in action: library(ggplot2) library(ggalt) # devtools::install_github("hrbrmstr/ggalt") library(dplyr)   # from: ...

Google recently announced their DNS-over-HTTPS API, which “enhances privacy and security between a client and a recursive resolver, and complements DNSSEC to provide end-to-end authenticated DNS lookups”. The REST API they provided was pretty simple to wrap into a package and I tossed in some SPF functions that I had ...

I make a fair share of bar charts throughout the day and really like switching to lollipop charts to mix things up a bit and enhance the visual appeal. They’re easy to do in ggplot2, just use your traditional x & y mapping for geom_point() and then use (you ...

Why 52Vis? In case folks are wondering why I’m doing this, it’s pretty simple. We need a society that has high data literacy and we need folks who are capable of making awesome, truthful data visualizations. The only way to do that is by working with data over, ...

Per a suggestion, I’m going to try to find a neat data set (prbly one from @jsvine) to feature each week and toss up some sample code (99% of the time prbly in R) and offer up a vis challenge. Just reply in the comments with a link to a ...

Folks who’ve been tracking this blog on R-bloggers probably remember this post where I showed how to create a composite U.S. map with an Albers projection (which is commonly referred to as AlbersUSA these days thanks to D3). I’m not sure why I didn’t think of ...

I’m a huge fan of ProPublica. They have a super-savvy tech team, great reporters, awesome graphics folks and excel at data-driven journalism. Plus, they give away virtually everything, including data, text, graphics & tools. I was reading @USATODAY’s piece on lead levels in drinking water across America and saw ...

So, I (unapologetically) did this to @Highcharts last week: @hrbrmstr Your loss of words inspired this post!! https://t.co/3KO0BP0k0u @hadleywickham @ma_salmon @tdmv @bearloga @rushworth_a @awhstin— Highcharts (@Highcharts) March 18, 2016 They did an awesome makeover (it’s interactive if you follow the link): And, I’...

This is a follow up to a twitter-gist post & to the annotation party we’re having this week I had not intended this to be “Annotation Week” but there was a large, positive response to my annotation “hack” post. This reaction surprised me, then someone pointed me to this link ...

I caught this tweet today: INSTEAD OF WORRYING ABOUT HOW OTHER DATA SCIENTISTS USE 🕒 PERHAPS @WSJGraphics COULD SPEND THEIR 🕒 LEARNING DATAVIZ pic.twitter.com/xrP2eUhaaQ— Metrics Hulk (@MetricsHulk) March 14, 2016 The WSJ folks usually do a great job, but this was either rushed or not completely thought through. There’s ...