ggraph 2.2.0 has been released. This was definitely not supposed to be a feature release, yet here we are…
patchwork 1.2.0 is out with two outstanding new features. Read on to learn more
A new tidygraph release is out. Read here what’s new in v1.3.0
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.
A new version of patchwork has reached CRAN, read on to find out which new features it brings…
A huge update to ambient is finally on CRAN… mostly because I forgot to submit it a year ago 😬
A short and practical introduction to what vectorising in R really is all about
It’s not that difficult…
Finally! Patchwork has finally been released on CRAN. Finally! No Joke… It’s all there! Go check it out.
Colours are a central aspect of many visualisations, and a new release of the farver package is ready to supercharge colour manipulation in R.
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…
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…
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.
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.
My year in review… It has been quite a ride!
Wondering what powers the polygon transitions in gganimate? The package is transformr and it has just landed on CRAN
transformr
A new tweenr version is out and this post tells you all you need to know to make the transition
… wherein I open Pandoras box when it comes to interpolating data for animations
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
The new version of lime adds support for image models as well as build-in support for keras models and range of other tweaks
particles, my R port of the d3-force algorithm, is now on CRAN — read on to find out why you should care!
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.
Everything that ever happened in 2017 - Eyes of the beholder may apply
In this blog post I’ll show one way of deploying fiery web services: As a Heroku app.
A short post about my descision to move from Jekyll to Blogdown/Hugo
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
I’m happy to finally be able to announce that routr is on CRAN, thus completing the standard fiery stack trifecta
A showcase of facet_stereo() in ggforce. A largely useless, but fun, feature
The R webserver framework fiery has just been updated to v1.0
A modern R interface to HTTP messages
On performance, mechanics, and coding in ggplot2
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!
Towards a tidy API for relational data
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…
ggraph, a package for creating network and tree visualizations using the ggplot2 API has just been released on CRAN
In the third post in this series of ggraph introductions I will dive into how to connect nodes using edges
In the second post in this series of ggraph introductions I will dive into how nodes are drawn
In the first post in a series of ggraph introductions I will talk about how ggraph specifies and uses layouts
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
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.
The story of how I landed the most prestigious internship within the world of R visualization frameworks.
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
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
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.
This is the opening post of my site, where I denounce any attempt at perfection.
