Useful websites
Blogs
References & Examples
- R Graph Compendia/Catalogs:
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A Compendium of Clean Graphs in R, by Eric-Jan Wagenmakers and Quentin F. Gronau (note: in “Base R”)
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R Graph Catalog, by Joanna Zhao and Jennifer Bryan (note: in ggplot2)
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Markdown Tutorial
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Summer 2016 ggplot OHSU Data Jamboree
- A useful
tutorial on using the
Seaborn Python library for visualizing distributions.
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A Dramatic Tour through Python’s Data Visualization Landscape (including ggplot and Altair)
- The Washington Post’s
“demographic tug-of-war” visualization is a lovely illustration of how not to appropriately use color saturation and hue to encode information, and also has misleading axes (both in unit spacing and direction)!
- The New York Times’ interactive
“The 1,024 Ways Clinton or Trump Can Win the Election” is a great use of interactivity as a data exploration tool.
- Also from the NYT,
“Your Surgeon Is Probably a Republican, Your Psychiatrist Probably a Democrat” makes excellent use of a graphs and charts to tell a very clear story. Also note their detailed description at the end of the article of how the data were collected!
- The Washington Post’s
“One Hundred Years of Hurricanes” is a nice example of small-multiples cartography along with color.
- The New York Times’
“What Good Marathons and Bad Investments Have in Common” illustrates a good use of contrast and preattentive processing (plus is a very interesting story!).
- From Our World In Data, a nice example of using color and saturation to highlight certain information, in a terrifying plot about
Life Expectancy vs. Health Expenditure Over Time.
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Myriahedral map projections are interesting.
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Tilegrams are a good alternative to a cartogram.
- We do not recommend making bivariate chloropleth maps, but if you must,
here’s a good tutorial on how to do it and what some of the considerations are.