Let it tell a story

Penguins

Adelie by Leksele
(Shutterstock)

Gentoo by Vittaya Pinpan
(Shutterstock)

Chinstrap by Alexey Seafarer
(Shutterstock)

Penguins are different

So let’s measure

Does it work?


Adelie by Leksele (Shutterstock)




Gentoo by Vittaya Pinpan (Shutterstock)




Chinstrap by Alexey Seafarer (Shutterstock)

Let’s look at data

The Traditional

Wonderful artwork by @Allison_Horst

  • old favourites
    • histograms
    • boxplots
    • bar chart
    • line plots….
  • lot of creative twists in R
  • maps
  • networks
  • interactive
  • animated
  • 3D….
  • karyograms
  • and more
    • finishing touches that bring a graphic to life
    • colour schemes, annotations, scales….

Animations

  • old favourites
    • histograms
    • boxplots
    • bar chart
    • line plots….
  • lot of creative twists in R
  • maps
  • networks
  • interactive
  • animated
  • 3D….
  • karyograms
  • and more
    • finishing touches that bring a graphic to life
    • colour schemes, annotations, scales….

Networks

  • old favourites
    • histograms
    • boxplots
    • bar chart
    • line plots….
  • lot of creative twists in R
  • maps
  • networks
  • interactive
  • animated
  • 3D….
  • karyograms
  • and more
    • finishing touches that bring a graphic to life
    • colour schemes, annotations, scales….

Annotations

  • old favourites
    • histograms
    • boxplots
    • bar chart
    • line plots….
  • lot of creative twists in R
  • maps
  • networks
  • interactive
  • animated
  • 3D….
  • karyograms
  • and more
    • finishing touches that bring a graphic to life
    • colour schemes, annotations, scales….

Maps

  • old favourites
    • histograms
    • boxplots
    • bar chart
    • line plots….
  • lot of creative twists in R
  • maps
  • networks
  • interactive
  • animated
  • 3D….
  • karyograms
  • and more
    • finishing touches that bring a graphic to life
    • colour schemes, annotations, scales….

Word Clouds

genes from Pardinas et al. 2018

  • old favourites
    • histograms
    • boxplots
    • bar chart
    • line plots….
  • lot of creative twists in R
  • maps
  • networks
  • interactive
  • animated
  • 3D….
  • karyograms
  • and more
    • finishing touches that bring a graphic to life
    • colour schemes, annotations, scales….

Niche Applications

  • old favourites
    • histograms
    • boxplots
    • bar chart
    • line plots….
  • lot of creative twists in R
  • maps
  • networks
  • interactive
  • animated
  • 3D….
  • karyograms
  • and more
    • finishing touches that bring a graphic to life
    • colour schemes, annotations, scales….

And so much out there

And so much out there

  • R community eager and energetic in sharing ideas
  • My goto places
    • Rweekly.org
    • #rstats
    • r-bloggers.com

Easy because so much out there

  • and in that vein….
    • Shannon Pileggi (pipinghotdata.com) for the flexdashboard idea
    • @Allison_Horst for the graphics
    • @bradleyboehmke for the variable importance chart
    • @Fiona_Grimm (Health Foundation for shaping the NHS data)
    • Gina Reynolds for the bar chart race
    • Emil Hvitfeldt for the emoji plot