Blake Robert Mills
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Current US Digital Corp Fellow ~ Cities + Statistics + Art ~ ABBA Enthusiast ~ #MetBrewer Creator ~ Cowboy at Heart ~ 🏳️🌈
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✨✨ New Package ✨✨
Happy to announce that I am soft launching another R color palette package, {MoMAColors} today! Currently has 35 palettes based around artwork at
@MuseumModernArt
.
Download Instruction and Palettes here:
#r4ds
#dataviz
#rstats
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✨✨New Package✨✨
Happy to announce that I am soft launching my R color palette package {MetBrewer} today! Currently has over 30 palettes inspired by works at the
@metmuseum
and expanding!
Download Instruction and Palettes here:
#r4ds
#dataviz
#rstats
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{MetBrewer} 📦 is officially on Cran 🥳🥳. Contains 50 palettes (including 18 colorblind-friendly) inspired by works at the
@metmuseum
. Bring some art to your
#dataviz
with palettes for every purpose!
Ready to use with: install.packages("MetBrewer")
#MetBrewer
#rstats
#r4ds
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✨✨ PACKAGE UPDATE ✨✨
MetBrewer 0.2.0 is officially out 🥳 Available both on Cran and through my GitHub here:
New Palettes are out and some amazing new features. Full description of what has changed below :)
#MetBrewer
#rstats
#r4ds
#dataviz
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Here is my map for today's crossover of
#TidyTuesday
and
#30DayMapChallenge
. Displays the bike lanes of major global cities. Data collected from each city's open data.
Code:
Full Image:
#rstats
#dataviz
#r4ds
#tidyverse
#ggplot2
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Spring Break has given me the time to play around with some new palette options for the upcoming
#MetBrewer
update :) What do y'all think?
#RStats
#dataviz
#r4ds
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Here is my submission for this week's
#TidyTuesday
, showing how the 25 most popular dogs of 2020 rank on different metrics. Also added a little drawing for each dog 🦮🐩🐕
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#r4ds
#tidyverse
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Here is my map for Day 9 (Monochrome) of the
#30DayMapChallenge
. Mapping 5 different cities by bike lanes, train lines, water and other features. Best when viewed full.
Code:
Full Image:
#rstats
#dataviz
#r4ds
#tidyverse
#ggplot2
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Day 16 (Urban) of the
#30DayMapChallenge
showing the average cost per bedroom & night (USD) of Airbnbs in urban cities by street. Data from
@InsideAirbnb
. Link has better resolution. Individual maps in the comments.
Full Image:
#rstats
#dataviz
#ggplot2
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Here is my map for Day 5 of the
#30DayMapChallenge
using
@openstreetmapdata
. Visualizes the shape of major cities by showing their streets, highways, and other roads.
Code:
Full Image:
#rstats
#dataviz
#r4ds
#tidyverse
#ggplot2
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Here is my submission for this week's
#TidyTuesday
. This is a recreation of this plot () by
@CedScherer
, so full credit to him, loved this plot!
Code:
Full Image:
#rstats
#dataviz
#r4ds
#tidyverse
#ggplot2
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First
#TidyTuesday
in while showing number of spider species discovered in different countries by family.
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#r4ds
#tidyverse
#ggplot2
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Maps for Day 21 Elevation of the
#30DayMapChallenge
. Roads of major cities colored by elevation. New York, London, Paris, and Mexico City. More cities in comments!
Code:
All Maps:
#rstats
#dataviz
#rspatial
#tidyverse
#ggplot2
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It's official! My website is officially up and running. All my
#dataviz
, maps, and never before seen drawings centralized in one place 🥳🥳 Go check it out!
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So happy to finally share the hex sticker for {MetBrewer} 🏺 Uses the (Greek) palette color scheme and based on the fragmentary head from the
@metmuseum
🏺
Download Instruction and Palettes here:
#r4ds
#dataviz
#rstats
#MetBrewer
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Here is my submission for this weeks
#TidyTuesday
. Interesting to see how the different networks compare in the dramas and comedies
Code:
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#Rstats
#dataviz
#r4ds
#tidyverse
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Day 4 of the
#30DayMapChallenge
- A bad map! Plot shows frequency of 311 calls of graffiti in Manhattan. A guide for anyone wanting to paint the city in some new areas 😉🎨
Code:
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#dataviz
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Day 2 of the
#30DayMapChallenge
- Lines!
Streets of Manhattan colored by neighborhood. Also using the {MoMAColors} and the vonHeyl color palette to add a bit more NYC to the map 🎨🏙️
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#r4ds
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Day 6 of the
#30DayMapChallenge
- Asia. Map shows the roads of Tokyo colored by ward🌸🌸
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#r4ds
#tidyverse
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Catching up (again) on some map. Day 13 of the
#30DayMapChallenge
- Cloropleth. Map shows the average monthly rent in Manhattan by block in 1940.
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#tidyverse
#MetBrewer
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The package contains 24 palettes that are colorblind friendly, and a mix of qualitative, diverging, and sequential palettes.
The package also contains functionality for {ggplot2} to easily incorporate into your data visualizations.
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I've been making color palettes from works at the
@metmuseum
for a while, but over break I've had the time to actually put them in R. Stay tuned for a possible palette package down the road 👀
#Rstats
#metmuseum
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Here is my submission for this week's
#TidyTuesday
, showing the distribution of chocolate rating by origin country. Trying to visualize each country as a chocolate bar.
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#r4ds
#tidyverse
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Day 17 of the
#30DayMapChallenge
- Flow. Map shows difference in number of pick-ups and drop-offs of yellow taxis in Manhattan.
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#tidyverse
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Here is my map for Day 6 (Red) of the
#30DayMapChallenge
. Maps show police killings plotted over HOLC's redlining maps. Single city maps in comments and on Github.
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#r4ds
#tidyverse
#ggplot2
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Day 29 of the
#30DayMapChallenge
- Population. Map shows number Squirrels in Central Park from the 2018 Squirrel Census 🐿️🐿️
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#tidyverse
#MoMAColors
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Day 3 of the
#30DayMapChallenge
- Polygons! Plot shows buildings in Manhattan colored by number of residential units 🏙️ Using the Hokusai3 palette from
#MetBrewer
as well 🎨
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#r4ds
#tidyverse
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Today's map for the
#30DayMapChallenge
is a sister to yesterday's one. This time showing parks in major cities (Take 2 since there were errors in the original upload).
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#r4ds
#tidyverse
#ggplot2
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As seen above, 8 new palettes have been added, 6 of which are colorblind-friendly! Here is: Archambault, Benedictus, Demuth, Java, Johnson, Kandinsky, Paquin, and Tam!
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One of the main requests was to add {ggplot2} functionality with {MetBrewer}. Functions are now available to set color and fill scale. Options include:
scale_*_met_c: for continuous values
scale_*_met_d: for discrete values.
Stay tuned for binned functionality.
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Here is my submission for this week's
#TidyTuesday
showing the concentration of alternative fuel stations along highways in the US.
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#r4ds
#tidyverse
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Here is my
#TidyTuesday
for the week showing the percentage of drought and wet conditions in US states from 2012 to 2022.
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#r4ds
#tidyverse
#MetBrewer
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Here is my submission for this week's
#TidyTuesday
. Finally had a change to use the {gganimate} package. (Best when viewed on Github)
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#r4ds
#tidyverse
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Here is my map for Day 22 (Boundaries) of the
#30DayMapChallenge
using NYC Open Data to map disparities in among community districts.
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#rspatial
#tidyverse
#ggplot2
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Day 18 of the
#30DayMapChallenge
- Atmosphere. Maps shows the concentration of PM2.5 in the different boroughs of NYC.
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#tidyverse
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Today's map for the
#30DayMapChallenge
shows the change in number of bee colonies by decade compared to 1990. Data from USDA Honeybee Surveys 🐝🐝🐝
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#r4ds
#tidyverse
#ggplot2
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Here is my submission for this week's
#TidyTuesday
. Why make one graph when you can make 173, right? The image is very large so you can zoom in– best when viewed in link below.
Code:
Full Image:
#rstats
#dataviz
#r4ds
#tidyverse
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A little late getting it out, but Day 1 of
#30DayMapChallenge
- Points, showing the locations of Temporary Public Art in Manhattan. Data from NYC Open Data
Code:
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#rstats
#r4ds
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First
#TidyTuesday
in a while showing how much corporate sponsors of various city Prides have donated to anti-LGBTQ+ politicians across studied states. (Data from
@DataProgress
)
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#r4ds
#tidyverse
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All palettes can now be viewed at once with the display_all() function. You can also specify to only view colorblind-friendly palettes. Special thanks to Daniel Sewell for writing the function!
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Day 15 of the
#30DayMapChallenge
- OpenStreetMap. More of just an experiment with color, but maps showing Manhattan with combinations of the Signac palette in
#MetBrewer
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#tidyverse
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First
#tidytuesday
posting here showing the average lifespan and offspring of lemurs.
Code:
Data:
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#dataviz
#RStats
#ggplot2
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First article in
@TDataScience
🥳 an analysis of over 500,000 tweets from sitting members of Congress. It explores views of social and policy issues through sentiment analysis. Some interesting maps and graphs included too!
#RStats
#DataScience
#Congress
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Day 8 of the
#30DayMapChallenge
- Africa. Maps show the urban extent of Lagos, Kinshasa and Cairo over time.
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#tidyverse
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Here is my map for Day 24 (Historical) of the
#30DayMapChallenge
. Map shows discovered roads and buildings in the ruins of Pompeii.
Code:
Full Image:
#rstats
#dataviz
#rspatial
#tidyverse
#ggplot2
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This package is designed as a sister to {MetBrewer} , and the functionality is nearly identical. One exciting change in the creation of the test.plots.moma() function, which displays a set of plots to see how a palette would look in different formats.
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Here is my submission for this week's
#TidyTuesday
. Nothing too crazy, but glad I could bust out the Fall color palette.
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#r4ds
#tidyverse
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For
#TidyTuesday
this week, I'm showing what I've been working on over the break. Plot displays the most commonly used colors in paintings in my favorite gallery, Gallery 600, at the
@metmuseum
. Images and data come from the Met API.
#rstats
#dataviz
#r4ds
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Catching up on a missed map. Day 10 of the
#30DayMapChallenge
- North America. Just a simple elevation map of North America.
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#tidyverse
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Day 9 of the
#30DayMapChallenge
- Hexagons. Maps shows Manhattan colored by the numbers of bars in the area 🏙️✨🍸 Truly the most important map of the city.
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#tidyverse
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Here is my recreation of W.E.B. Du Bois' Illiteracy plot for
#TidyTuesday
and the
#DuBoisChallenge2022
.
Full Plot:
Code:
#rstats
#r4ds
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#30DayMapChallenge
Day 16 (Urban) cont. Here are 3 other maps of nightly Airbnb prices I made but didn't post originally: Mexico City, Rio and Sydney
Downloadable Maps:
Code:
#rstats
#dataviz
#rspatial
#tidyverse
#ggplot2
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Day 14 of the
#30DayMapChallenge
- Europe. Similar to what I've done for other cities, but loving this style. Maps show the urban extent over time of different European cities.
Code:
Full Images:
#rstats
#dataviz
#tidyverse
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Still catching up on some maps. Day 11 of the
#30DayMapChallenge
- Retro. Map shows the New York City subway system inspired by David Klein's 1956 TWA New York Poster.
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#tidyverse
#MoMAcolors
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For this week's
#TidyTuesday
, I wanted to show what percentage of all papers the different topics occupied by date. Not too much variation, but I really like this color scheme
Code:
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#dataviz
#r4ds
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@xruiztru
Damn, haven’t thought about this map in a while! For all those seeing it now, this is London, Ontario (file upload error) I corrected this a while ago.
I have corrected London on this map. The updated version can be found on my GitHub here: . That all said, if the city of London, Ontario would ever like me to do any work for them, I have experience with their site and would love to collaborate lol
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Day 20 of the
#30DayMapChallenge
- Outdoors. Map shows the vegetation of Great Smoky Mountain National Park.
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#tidyverse
#MoMAColors
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Day 28 of the
#30DayMapChallenge
- Is this a map or a chart?. Map/chart shows the number of bodegas for each supermarket in Manhattan.
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#rstats
#dataviz
#tidyverse
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Day 21 of the
#30DayMapChallenge
- Raster. Maps shows the elevation of NYC boroughs and all neighborhoods with the name "Heights."
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#tidyverse
#MoMAColors
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Maps for Day 20 Movement of the
#30DayMapChallenge
, ways of moving through National Parks. Glacier, Rocky Mountains, Yellowstone and Yosemite here (more maps below).
Code:
All Maps:
#rstats
#dataviz
#rspatial
#tidyverse
#ggplot2
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Here is my map for the
#30DayMapChallenge
. Decided to keep it simple with some Community Spaces in Manhattan. Everything is from NYC Open Data (Link will be added to GitHub).
Code:
Full Plot:
#rstats
#dataviz
#r4ds
#tidyverse
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Day 22 of the
#30DayMapChallenge
- North is not always Up. Map shows the wards of NYC in 1852 based on a map at the Brooklyn Library (linked in comments)!
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#tidyverse
#MoMAColors
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My
#tidytuesday
viz for the week, showing average percentage of sightings of popular birds. It's bright, but how could I not base the color scheme on the Rainbow Lorikeet 🦜🦜
Code:
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#Rstats
#dataviz
#r4ds
#tidyverse
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Here is my map for Day 13 (Natural Earth) of the
#30DayMapChallenge
. Simple map showing major cities and roads of the world. Map looks best when viewed in full.
Code:
Full Image:
#rstats
#dataviz
#rspatial
#tidyverse
#ggplot2
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Palette comes from one of Katsushika Hokusai's prints from One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (currently at the
@metmuseum
). Stay tuned too for my Met Museum Palette Package coming soon!
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The met.brewer() function now has two additional optional parameters:
direction: specify direction of palette
override.order: Should the colors be selected to optimize aesthetics/readability (FALSE) or should the colors be selected in sequential order (TRUE)
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This is a soft launch, so I would love to hear feedback for everyone! Let me know if everything is working properly and if the palettes look good!
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Here is my map for Day 12 (Population) of the
#30DayMapChallenge
. Used ward maps from
@nypl
and NYS Census data to show changes in population from 1703 to 1855.
Code:
Full Image:
#rstats
#dataviz
#rspatial
#tidyverse
#ggplot2
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Day 27 of the
#30DayMapChallenge
- Dot. Map shows number of 311 call requests for new trees in Manhattan.
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#tidyverse
#MoMAColors
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The update is available on Cran and can also be downloaded through my Github! Let me know what you want to see next! Feel free to reach out on my Github or website below :)
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Here is my
#TidyTuesday
for the week showing the amount and number of Pell Grant recipients at each Ivy League University from 1999 to 2017.
P.S. Go Lions 🦁💙🦁
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#r4ds
#tidyverse
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Huge thanks to
@Jake_Lawlor1
,
@_inundata
,
@hadleywickham
, as my code's structured was inspired by {PNWColors} and {wesanderson}!
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Day 12 of the
#30DayMapChallenge
- South America. Maps show the urban extent of Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Santiago and São Paulo over time 🏙️
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#tidyverse
#MoMAcolors
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Still finishing a few maps I missed. Day 26 of the
#30DayMapChallenge
- Minimal. Spent forever creating the 8-bit icons for this Manhattan Map. Highly encourage everyone to check out the full image for detail!
Code:
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Day 16 of the
#30DayMapChallenge
- Oceania. Map shows different features of the Great Barrier Reef.
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#tidyverse
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5 palettes have also been updated, hopefully to make them more usable. Changes include:
Homer2: Removed pink (bad fit)
Isfahan1: Adapted blues to be diverging
Morgenstern: Adapted purples to be diverging
Peru2: Removed orange/brown (bad fit)
VanGogh3: Shade change of 5th green
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Using today to finish my skipped entries. Day 5 of the
#30DayMapChallenge
- Analog Map. Map shows the location of plants in my apartment. Slightly cheated using Procreate, but that is my true, messy handwriting 🪴🌿🌵
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Day 19 of the
#30DayMapChallenge
- 5 Minute Map. Might have gone over by a minute or two 👀 A map of my neighborhood – Harlem! A Frankenstein of code from previous days.
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#rstats
#dataviz
#tidyverse
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This is the soft launch before sending it to Cran, so any and all feedback is welcome and greatly appreciated. Feel free to message me here or see the GitHub page to contact me with any questions or comments! 🤠
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Little late getting this out, but here is my
#tidytuesday
viz for the week. Interesting to see trends in grid position and ending position.
Code:
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#Rstats
#dataviz
#r4ds
#tidyverse
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Finally (slightly) changed things up for
#tidytuesday
. Could not miss the opportunity to compare
#ABBA
to the rest of the Billboard 100
Code:
#Rstats
#dataviz
#r4ds
#tidyverse
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Fun fact, I made this color scheme from Van Gogh’s “Cypresses” (1889)
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✨✨Package News✨✨
{MetBrewer} is now able to be used on
#python
🐍🐍 Special thanks to
@thor_tweeter
for writing the python code and guide.
Instructions and palettes available here:
#dataviz
#pythonprogramming
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Day 7 of the
#30DayMapChallenge
- Navigation. Thought I would pay tribute to the navigation map I have used most in my life – the Pokemon Emerald/Ruby/Sapphire Hoenn Map!
Code:
Full Image:
#rstats
#dataviz
#tidyverse
#MetBrewer
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Struggled hard with the colors of this one, but I liked how it came out. I usually take inspiration from classic art. These colors come from Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" (1485–1486)
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Day 25 of the
#30DayMapChallenge
- Antarctica. Map shows earthquakes around the continent.
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#rstats
#dataviz
#tidyverse
#MoMAColors
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@WolframMoebius
@metmuseum
Thank you so much! Colorblind-friendly is currently in the works! I think having the red-white-blue palette is a great idea! I was originally hoping the Troy palette would cover it, but it looks like I need to specify white as the transition color. Thank you!
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@IanSudbery
@metmuseum
Actually no, I am updating a lot of them to be more color blind friendly, as well as writing some code to help distinguish them. Interesting that it's somewhat working though lol. Thank you!
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Here is my map for Day 7 (Green) of the
#30DayMapChallenge
. Wanted to show how "green" different building in Manhattan were with Energy Star Scores.
Code:
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#rstats
#dataviz
#r4ds
#tidyverse
#ggplot2
#NYCOpenData
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The last thing changed was the removal of two palettes. The Robert and Stevens palettes were removed for similarity to other palettes and to prevent the total choices from being too overwhelming. Sad to see them go, but hopefully the new palettes will bring some joy!
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Amsterdam, Berlin, London
Downloadable Versions Here:
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Berlin, Milan, Buenos Aires, Mumbai.
All maps are downloadable here:
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This color scheme comes for Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II" (1912)
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@datenschatz
@InsideAirbnb
Thank you! That is exactly how I did things actually. For simplicity sake, I tessellated the map, found the mean airbnb price of each cell, then used an st_intersection(). I will post code on my github ASAP, the script is a bit messy right now.
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