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A Washington, DC Takeoff

Reflections from a walk, a NASA visit, an art exhibit, and a move.

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Recreate a FiveThirtyEight Chicklet Stacked Bar Chart in ggplot2

Use ggchicklet and ggtext to recreate FiveThirtyEight's Stacked Bar Chart in ggplot2

dataviz ggplot2 R ggtext
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Quick ggplot2 Tip: Creating Duplicate Legends

Duplicate a plot legend's to add a second key where the audience can better understand your figure

dataviz ggplot2 animation R
post img for Quick ggplot2 Tip: Left Align ggplot2 Titles, Subtitles, and Footnotes with Y-Axis Label

Quick ggplot2 Tip: Left Align ggplot2 Titles, Subtitles, and Footnotes with Y-Axis Label

Override ggplot2 defaults to add a consistent left-alignment throughout your figure

dataviz ggplot2 R
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R Animation Tip: Creating Pauses

Improve your R animations by implementing pause frames for emphasis

dataviz ggplot2 animation R
post img for The Dominance of Jonathan Taylor: Wisconsin Rushers in Context

The Dominance of Jonathan Taylor: Wisconsin Rushers in Context

Why Jonathan Taylor is on pace to be the greatest rusher in Wisconsin football history

dataviz dplyr ggplot2 sports R
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Seasonal Virgin River Narrows Discharge

Investigate and visualize the USGS water discharge data for the Virgin River Narrows from 1993 - 2018

animation dataviz dplyr ggplot2 lubridate R
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Wisconsin State Hex Grid - Mapping 2016 Presidential Results

Use the hexmapr package to map the Wisconsin 2016 Presidential Results

dataviz ggplot2 hexmapr R
post img for Makeover Monday: WSJ Measles Vaccination Chart

Makeover Monday: WSJ Measles Vaccination Chart

Using ggplot2 and animation packages to reproduce and animate the famous Wall Street Journal Measles Incidence Chart - this time as a cartogram!

animation dataviz ggplot2 makeover monday R
post img for Reproducing the WSJ Measles Vaccination Chart Using R

Reproducing the WSJ Measles Vaccination Chart Using R

Using ggplot2 and animation packages to reproduce and animate the famous Wall Street Journal Measles Incidence Chart

animation dataviz ggplot2 gganimate R
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Mapping Wisconsin Presidential Election Results

Wisconsin played a major role in the presidential election, but the result is not due to major differences with its Midwest neighbor.

R ggplot2 politics dataviz
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NBA Draft Odds Plot

Reproduce an NBA draft odds stacked bar plot

R ggplot2 data dataviz NBA
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mikelee.co: Powered by RMarkdown, knitr, and Jekyll

Generating blog content made easier with R

R knitr Jekyll RMarkdown
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Visualizing Video Games Throughout History

A Guide to the video game rating system using interactive visuals.

MobyGames Video Games FiveThirtyEight data R ggplot2 rvest D3.js
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Working with Minor League Similarity Scores

Using the Minor League Baseball database to calculate each players most similar comparison.

R dplyr Similarity Scores data sports MiLB MLB
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Let's Make a Minor League Baseball Database!

A step-by-step tutorial to make your own Minor League Baseball Database using rvest.

R rvest HTML scraper data sports MiLB MLB