Data Imaginist

Aug 13
Introducing reqres
A modern R interface to HTTP messages
Jul 24
Beneath the canvas
On performance, mechanics, and coding in ggplot2
Jul 12
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!
Jul 7
Introducing tidygraph
Towards a tidy API for relational data
May 2
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…
Feb 23
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
Feb 16
Introduction to ggraph: Edges
In the third post in this series of ggraph introductions I will dive into how to connect nodes using edges
Feb 10
Introduction to ggraph: Nodes
In the second post in this series of ggraph introductions I will dive into how nodes are drawn
Feb 6
Introduction to ggraph: Layouts
In the first post in a series of ggraph introductions I will talk about how ggraph specifies and uses layouts
Dec 21
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