A brief review of the book “Chart Spark” by Alli Torban
All tagged dataviz
Nightingale Kids Data Visualization Competition
My family entry into the “Dear Nightingale” analogue data creation challenge. Using puppy olympic competition data for our personal dataset and clay to make a 3D dataviz.
Create Your Own Data Visualization Gallery
Learn how to create your own virtual data art gallery.
Teaching Big Data Awareness: Big Data Girl
Discussing the book “Big Data Girl” by Fred Wordie and Santiago Taberna and how to use it to raise Big Data awareness in a classroom setting.
Simple EDA in R with inspectdf
Quickly and easily perform exploratory data analysis (EDA) on your individual data set or compare datasets in R with the Inspectdf function!
3 Reasons Why You Should Pre-Sketch Your Data Visualizations
Why performing an early mockup of your data visualization can help increase the speed and successful adoption of your project.
pelotonR
The pelotonR package provides users with simple access to the Peloton API data through R function calls.
Data Viz Competition: Mother & Daughter Team
An overview of my entry into the WIA data visualization competition with my 8 year old, Pokémon obsessed daughter!
Create Easy US Maps in R - Thanksgiving Edition
See which US states are most excited about Thanksgiving. Explore Google search popularity for the keyword “thanksgiving” using gTrendsR while creating easy US maps in R using the usmap package.
Tool Review: Data Illustrator
Data Illustrator is an easy and powerful data visualization tool that bridges the gap between traditional BI tools and design tools.
My pelotonR Package Debut!
I just released my first open-source package: pelotonR! The package was created to provide users with sample access to Peloton data through R. Learn more at the website: https://lgellis.github.io/pelotonR/
Data Science Books for Kids
Sharing some of my favorite data science and data foundation books for young kids!
At Home Data Activities for Young Kids
A week full of very easy data gathering and visualization activities to do with your young kids!
Patchwork R package goes nerd viral
A few weeks ago, my tweet on the R patchwork package went nerd viral. I analyze the tweet performance and possible impact on the patchwork package downloads. I’ll arrange the resulting graphs with patchwork!
As a bonus, I’ll show y’all how I added an image to the patchwork layout by placing it within a ggplot graph and fixing the coordinates to avoid weird scaling issues.
Happy Holidays 2019
Wishing all of my fellow data geeks a very happy holiday season. Celebrating by creating Holiday e-Card themed R graphs.
Magazine Review: Market Cafe Magazine
Market Cafe Mag is a beautiful and thought provoking magazine which showcases beautifully crafted data visualizations and information storytelling.
Tool Review: Apache Superset
Apache Superset is an open-source data exploration, visualization and dashboarding tool designed with an easy to use, drag and drop style interface.
Analyzing the bachelor franchise ratings with gtrendsR!
Which season of the bachelor really was the most dramatic ever? Analyze the relative popularity of the bachelor franchise seasons as measured by their google search traffic using R, gtrendsR, ggplot2, ggimage and gganimate!
Podcast Review: Data Viz Today
A podcast that opens up your mind up to a wide range of impactful data visualization techniques and considerations!
Package Review: magick
The magick package allows us to super easily work with images and animations in R!