— Ilya Kashnitsky — bsky @ikashnitsky.phd (@ikashnitsky) October 16, 2021
Dataviz art/skill
Create powerful dataviz with R
Ilya Kashnitsky
Barcelona Summer School of Demography 2024
2024-07-15
@ikashnitsky.phd
— Ilya Kashnitsky — bsky @ikashnitsky.phd (@ikashnitsky) April 2, 2021
My #dataviz course w/ @MPIDRnews & @IMPRS_PHDS starts today. Excited and slightly nervous to deliver to 180+ participants 🙀
— Ilya Kashnitsky — bsky @ikashnitsky.phd (@ikashnitsky) June 14, 2021
The course now has its own account here @DatavizArtSkill
And a hashtag #datavizartskill pic.twitter.com/uPNiFcdIvC
before we start
materials for the course
rule 0 – DO VISUALIZE YOUR DATA
Anscombe’s Quartet
New #chi2017 paper is up. Don't trust statistics alone, visualize your data!https://t.co/amnbAYvsq1 pic.twitter.com/1s6vkge6dl
— Justin Matejka (@JustinMatejka) May 1, 2017
Visualizing summary statistics in a #boxplot is great. But don't forget to explore the underlying data distribution.
— Mihaela Bozukova (@MBozukova) April 27, 2021
Thanks to @JustinMatejka for this great educational dataset.#30DayChartChallenge | #Day27 | #educational #dataviz #Rstats #ggplot2 #statistics #violinplot pic.twitter.com/JfNwMzuash
Remade the @WSJ measles vaccination visualization using ggplot2 and the animation package #rstats pic.twitter.com/cnIScD9ymI
— Michael Lee 🚴📊🇷 (@mikeleeco) June 19, 2017
rule 1 – text should be horizontal
example of a figure improvement
rule 2 – on slides, text should be as large as possible
rule 3 – mind colors, especially regarding colorblind friendliness
https://t.co/KPqzPh06Iq pic.twitter.com/P1YWTIWooR
— Ilya Kashnitsky — bsky @ikashnitsky.phd (@ikashnitsky) May 6, 2020
Great news #rstats #dataviz — the default go-to color selection just got richer 💥🎉
— Ilya Kashnitsky — bsky @ikashnitsky.phd (@ikashnitsky) April 12, 2021
Knowing where it comes from, I know better than to question wherever "turbo" color scheme is really colorblind friendly, but it really blows my mind that something of these colors can be… https://t.co/AVo6cdMD32 pic.twitter.com/pIud4NRjhY
rule 4 – highlight what’s important for the story
Spent way too long trying to work out what was so special about her knee https://t.co/0epzaJeQKk
— Alex Selby-Boothroyd (@AlexSelbyB) June 13, 2021
rule 5 – plots don’t have to be overly complicated to be powerful
Climate change is happening now & is happening everywhere. Our lives are already being affected by the warming of the planet.
— Ed Hawkins (@ed_hawkins) April 9, 2021
Human activities are causing these fundamental changes to the climate. Burning fossil fuels & deforestation are the primary reasons.
Our choices matter. pic.twitter.com/SPnkVYq10u
Austria vs Germany ⚽️ The First 111 Years #AUTGER international #football results since 1907:
— ramon bauer (@metropop_eu) June 3, 2018
🇦🇹 10 wins
🇩🇪 25 wins
✖️ 6 draws#dataviz by @tinafrank & @metropop_eu pic.twitter.com/iRjXmpNsOe
🏆⚽ As we head into the round of 16 of the UEFA EURO 2024, which teams do you think were the most efficient?
— Cédric Scherer (@CedScherer) June 29, 2024
Germany scored the most goals and shots in the group phase! Serbia, France, and Belgium were the least efficient.#EURO2024 #DataViz #rstats #ggplot2 pic.twitter.com/ghnU9sV2xK
a great example
Friday and don't know what to do? Train your #ggplot2 skills! 📊
— Cédric Scherer (@CedScherer) May 17, 2019
My first blog post "The Evolution of a ggplot (Ep. 1)" is online 🎉https://t.co/fWG4PmyyhU
Thanks to @R4DScommunity @rstudio @dataandme for all the neat #rstats tricks! #tidyverse #DataViz #TidyTuesday #R4DS pic.twitter.com/RRMTSjXFgj
(not a rule) suggestion
When possible and meaningful for you story – animate
⚽️ With the #EURO2020 approaching, you've probably all been wondering what ~1 million of passes would looks like if all shot at the same time, right? Well wonder no more...
— Karim Douïeb (@karim_douieb) June 9, 2021
Thanks @StatsBomb for making the data openly available! @observablehq notebook https://t.co/dO4sfQpRi4 pic.twitter.com/fqbdK6PjRd
Or make it completely interactive
Dataviz principles
Jonas Shoeley’s slides
Tidyverse
— Trust me, I'm a "Biologist" (@TrustBiologist) June 13, 2021
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