Welcome to rstudio::conf 2019 Similar to last year, I was not able to attend rstudio::conf 2019. Fortunately, so much of the conference is shared on Twitter and media outlets that I still felt included. Here are some things that I liked and learned from, despite the Austin-Tilburg distance. All presentations are streamed One great thing…
Tag: gganimate
Animated Snow in R, 2.0: gganimate API update
Last year, inspired by a tweet from Ilya Kashnitsky, I wrote a snow animation which you can read all about here. Now, this year, the old code no longer worked due to an update to the gganimate API. Hence, I was about to only refactor the code, but decided to give the whole thing a minor update. Below,…
Animated vs. Static Data Visualizations
GIFs or animations are rising quickly in the data visualization world (see for instance here). However, in my personal experience, they are not as widely used in business settings. You might even say animations are frowned by, for instance, LinkedIn, which removed the option to even post GIFs on their platform! Nevertheless, animations can be…
Your own personalized motivational GIF
One of the R OpenSci ozunconference 2018 projects was all about gganimate. The guys and gals dubbed this project learngganimate and dedicated an expansive GitHub repository to it. As part of this project, they created some — let’s call it — very creative GIFS. One of their GIFs I particularly liked, copied below. Using the OpenSci syn…
Animated Citation Gates turned into Selection Gates
Bret Beheim — senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology — posted a great GIF animation of the response to his research survey. He calls the figure citation gates, relating the year of scientific publication to the likelihood that the research materials are published open-source or accessible. To generate the visualization, Bret used…
Animated Snow in R
Due to the recent updates to the gganimate package, the code below no longer produces the desired animation. A working, updated version can be found here. After hearing R play the Jingle Bells tune, I really got into the holiday vibe. It made me think of Ilya Kashnitsky (homepage, twitter) his snowy image in R. –…
