A demonstration of what you can make using this technique. Each frame was made with ggplot2 in R and animated with Photoshop. The shapefile was downloaded from here. The selection of artists here is pretty much whoever popped into my head. Our baseline appears to be Beyonce. Other artists flare into our consciousness but within…
I live in the beautiful city of Portland, Oregon, which makes tons of city data readily available. Being a nosy jerk, I am particularly fond of PortlandMaps, which allows you to look at information for any property in the city. I decided to use their data to confirm/deny a hunch I’ve had for a while:…
The collateral damage of my interest in gardening is a head full of half-remembered Latin plant names. I’ve put it to use by scanning Reddit’s r/WhatsThisPlant to see how many requests I can answer (my hobbies are riveting. Would it surprise you that in addition to data viz and gardening, I am also interested in cats…
Random thought: does a parent’s name have a measurable effect on what they name their child? I wish I could tell you, but unfortunately I couldn’t find a large dataset associating real parents and children. Instead, I stumbled upon this, all of the marriages in NYC since the 1950s. Just the section from 1996-2010 has…
I created this visualization using US Census Bureau data. I crunched the data in MS Access and mapped it out in R. (Sorry AK and HI, I’m too new at R to manage mapping you yet). The values you see are the percent of cities in a given county that have the stated word in their…