Most of my data visualizations I create using R programming — as you might have noticed from the content of my website. Though I am colorblind myself, I love to work with colors and color palettes in my visualizations. And I’ve come across quite some neat tricks in my time. For instance, did you it’s…
Tag: color
Daily Art by Saskia Freeke
Saskia Freeke (twitter) is a Dutch artist, creative coder, interaction designer, visual designer, and educator working from Amsterdam. She has been creating an awesome digital art piece for every day since January 1st 2015. Her ever-growing collection includes some animated, visual masterpieces. My personal favorites are Saskia’s moving works, her GIFs: Saskia uses Processing to…
Data Visualization Tools & Resources
There’s this amazing overview of helpful dataviz resources atwww.visualisingdata.com/resources! Browse through hundreds of helpful data visualization tools, programs, and services. All neatly organized by Andy Kirk in categories: data handling, applications, programming, web-based, qualitative, mapping, specialist, and colour. What a great repository! Looking for expert books on data visualization?Have a look at these recommendations!
100 amazing color palettes including their Hex codes
TJ Mahr hinted to this Canva webpage on Twitter. It contains 100 beautiful color palettes including their hexadecimal color codes. For instance, these three below. The great thing is that these color palettes are include in the ggthemes package in R. Hence, the following code uses this Nightlife palette directly in an R script, resulting in…
Google for Colors
Picular.co calls itself Google, but for colors on its website. And not without good reason. On the site, you type in a color association (e.g., forest green), and it provides you an palette overview of associated colors and their hexadecimal (Hex) codes. I don’t precisely know how it works, but it seems to work quite well!
What to consider when choosing colors for data visualization, by DataWrapper.de
Lisa Charlotte Rost of DataWrapper often writes about data visualization and lately she has focused on the (im)proper use of color in visualization. In this recent blog, she gives a bunch of great tips and best practices, some of which I copied below: You can find additional useful tips in the original DataWrapper blog.
