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Things I've made for the love of it

Charts, chart challenges, packages, hex stickers and logos, almost all built in R. Most come with a blog post explaining how.

The opening of the story: a scatterplot with a smoothed trend line, a row of vase-shaped violins, a contour plot and a set of box plots, beside text saying that a data visualisation is just a graphical representation of data, and that data stories are what make it intelligible.

Data story
Honourable mention

You should have a favourite data visualisation

A scrollytelling story built with Quarto's Closeread, about why everyone should have a favourite chart, and how to find yours. An honourable mention in Posit's Closeread Prize.

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Package

{ggplot2wrapped}

Your year in ggplot2, Spotify Wrapped style, as a shareable report.

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Waffle charts of films and the Bechdel test. One large waffle shows that nearly half of all films pass; the rest have no women, women who never talk to each other, women who only talk about men, or a dubious pass. Five small waffles beside it give the same split for each decade from the 1970s to the 2010s.

#30DayChartChallenge

Part to whole: the Bechdel test

Waffle charts of how films fare on the Bechdel test.

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A yellow hexagon sticker. A teal, steam-powered machine labelled JS and R feeds a conveyor belt carrying out a map, a location pin and a widget. The word htmlwidgets runs along the bottom.

Design

An htmlwidgets hex sticker

Seven years in the making: a sticker for my favourite R package.

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A normal distribution curve filled with stacked emoji faces. Calm faces fill the middle 68% of the data, and the faces get more alarmed towards the tails. A speech bubble from one lonely face far out in the tail reads: Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation.

#30DayChartChallenge

Pictogram: emoji histogram

A normal distribution, one emoji at a time.

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Four tiles of brown stone, each covered in thick black wavy stripes with arrowheads along them. The waves flow in a different direction on each tile, with a pale grey curve running across the corner.

Experiment

Curves and stones

Recreating the elemental stones with {ggplot2}.

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Maps

Which side of the road?

A map from a post about why UX and dataviz should talk more.

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Design & logos

Logos built with {ggplot2}

The Visible Data mark, drawn entirely in R.

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Line chart of skirt hemlines from 1805 to 1970. Hems sit at the ankle until 1835, then stay at floor length until 1910 apart from two brief rises. After 1910 they climb in waves, reaching the knee in 1927, and go above the knee around 1970.

#30DayChartChallenge

Historical: skirt lengths

A century and a half of hemlines.

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An advent calendar: a photo of a Santa mug and red polka-dot mugs, covered by a grid of 24 numbered doors. In the animation the doors open one by one, each revealing a Christmas drink such as a caramelised almond brittle latte.

Experiment

A ggplot2 advent calendar

Animated doors opening on Christmas drinks, one a day.

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Short line segments, one per state, arranged roughly in the shape of the contiguous United States. A segment slopes up if its state is wider than it is tall, lies flat if the state is roughly square, and slopes down if it is taller than it is wide.

#30DayChartChallenge

Slopes: US state shapes

The aspect ratio of each contiguous US state, as a slope.

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A single pink violin shape that looks like an old-fashioned light bulb: a rounded glass bulb with a pointed tip, narrowing to a small screw base.

Experiment

A violin chart-like bulb

A violin chart in the shape of a light bulb.

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UpSet chart of two geoms. Bars show geom_line used without geom_col in 20 charts, geom_col without geom_line in 13, and the two together in 5.

Package

Which geoms go together?

An UpSet chart from {ggplot2wrapped}.

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Things I've made for the love of it

Pieces

You should have a favourite data visualisation

{ggplot2wrapped}

Part to whole: the Bechdel test

An htmlwidgets hex sticker

Pictogram: emoji histogram

Curves and stones

Which side of the road?

Logos built with {ggplot2}

Historical: skirt lengths

A ggplot2 advent calendar

Slopes: US state shapes

A violin chart-like bulb

Which geoms go together?