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Visualization and Beyond…

A bunch of giraffes, all bundled up

ggraph 2.2.0 has been released. This was definitely not supposed to be a feature release, yet here we are…

A small patch of free features

patchwork 1.2.0 is out with two outstanding new features. Read on to learn more

A new focus on tidygraph

A new tidygraph release is out. Read here what’s new in v1.3.0

Say Goodbye to “Good Taste”

I’m happy to announce the formal release of ggfx. My gift to myself after a year of font rendering work and a package certain to annoy any data visualisation purists in the neighbourhood.

Insetting a new patchwork version

A new version of patchwork has reached CRAN, read on to find out which new features it brings…

A noisy start

A huge update to ambient is finally on CRAN… mostly because I forgot to submit it a year ago 😬

Vectorising like a (semi)pro

A short and practical introduction to what vectorising in R really is all about

Don’t be a Dick

It’s not that difficult…

Patch it up and send it out

Finally! Patchwork has finally been released on CRAN. Finally! No Joke… It’s all there! Go check it out.

The Colour of Everything

Colours are a central aspect of many visualisations, and a new release of the farver package is ready to supercharge colour manipulation in R.

1 giraffe, 2 giraffe, GO!

After what seems like a lifetime, ggraph v2 has been released on CRAN. It packs many improvements, new features, bug fixes, and a tighter integration with tidygraph. Read all about it here…

A Flurry of Facets

ggforce 0.3.0 has landed on CRAN, a mere 5 months since the last release, showing my commitment to a more incremental release cycle. It doesn’t skip on cool features though…

The ggforce Awakens (again)

After more than 2 years of hibernation the ggforce package is back in full force. Get the sense of this major release in this blog post.

gganimate has transitioned to a state of release

After being the primary focus of my spare time for almost a year, gganimate has finally landed on CRAN. I hope you’ll enjoy using it as much as I’ve enjoyed developing it.

Entering and Exiting 2018

My year in review… It has been quite a ride!

transformr: Age of Spatial

Wondering what powers the polygon transitions in gganimate? The package is transformr and it has just landed on CRAN

The tweenr is all grown up

A new tweenr version is out and this post tells you all you need to know to make the transition

What Are We Plotting, What Are We Animating

… wherein I open Pandoras box when it comes to interpolating data for animations

Scico and the Colour Conundrum

scico is now available on CRAN, ready to spread sensible colours to the world. In this post I’ll show the few functions that it brings and talk a bit more in general why colour is something to think about when plotting data

lime v0.4: The kitten picture edition

The new version of lime adds support for image models as well as build-in support for keras models and range of other tweaks

Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow

particles, my R port of the d3-force algorithm, is now on CRAN — read on to find out why you should care!

tidygraph 1.1 – A tidy hope

I’m very happy to present the next version of tidygraph to the world, a release which is more than anything else a feature release bringing many new possibilities for your network analysis workflow.

Looking Back on 2017

Everything that ever happened in 2017 - Eyes of the beholder may apply

Setting fire to deployment: Heroku

In this blog post I’ll show one way of deploying fiery web services: As a Heroku app.

Moving to Blogdown

A short post about my descision to move from Jekyll to Blogdown/Hugo

Announcing lime - Explaining the predictions of black-box models

Have you been looking at the Python world with jealousy over their ability to explain machine learning predictions? Look no more! lime is now available for R

Introducing routr - Routing of HTTP and WebSocket in R

I’m happy to finally be able to announce that routr is on CRAN, thus completing the standard fiery stack trifecta

I made a 3D movie with ggplot2 once - here’s how I did it

A showcase of facet_stereo() in ggforce. A largely useless, but fun, feature

When A Fire Starts to Burn - Fiery 1.0 released

The R webserver framework fiery has just been updated to v1.0

Introducing reqres

A modern R interface to HTTP messages

Beneath the canvas

On performance, mechanics, and coding in ggplot2

Reigniting the fire: A roadmap for fiery

The fiery package has laid relatively dormant since its introduction a year ago, despite my best attempts to carve out time for it. This ends now!

Introducing tidygraph

Towards a tidy API for relational data

Taking control of animations in R and demystifying them in the process

Some time ago I created the logo for www.data-imaginist.com and and promised to show you how it could be animated. The time for that has come…

Announcing ggraph: A grammar of graphics for relational data

ggraph, a package for creating network and tree visualizations using the ggplot2 API has just been released on CRAN

Introduction to ggraph: Edges

In the third post in this series of ggraph introductions I will dive into how to connect nodes using edges

Introduction to ggraph: Nodes

In the second post in this series of ggraph introductions I will dive into how nodes are drawn

Introduction to ggraph: Layouts

In the first post in a series of ggraph introductions I will talk about how ggraph specifies and uses layouts

Data Driven Christmas Card Animation with Voronoi Tiles

In this post I’m going to show you how to make a Christmas card that will bring joy to even the geekiest of data scientists

Announcing ggforce: Accelerating ggplot2

ggforce is a collection of extensions to the ggplot2 plotting system intended to add missing pieces, boost functionality, and break the boundaries of what’s possible.

Becoming The Intern

The story of how I landed the most prestigious internship within the world of R visualization frameworks.

Creating a Bees and Bombs gif in R

If you don’t know Bees and Bombs go look him up immediatly. In this post I’ll recreate one of his recent masterpieces in R and hopefully talk a bit about problem decomposition in the process

Data Driven Logo Design with ggraph and gtable

I recently created the logo for www.data-imaginist.com and in this post I will describe how I did it and what went through my head in the process

Announcing curry: Operator based currying and partial application

curry is a new package just released on CRAN, that allows you to perform currying and partial application of functions using a range of operators.

Welcome to Data Imaginist!

This is the opening post of my site, where I denounce any attempt at perfection.