Familiar with R and wondering what Microsoft R Open and Microsoft R Server bring to the table? Then check out Lixun Zhang's article. … [Read more...]
Tufte in R
Lukasz Piwek maintains a resource that shows how the visualization practices developed by Edward Tufte can be replicated in R. His neat Tufte in R site currently contains examples of the following visualizations minimal line plot range-frame (or quartile-frame) scatterplot dot-dash (or rug) scatterplot minimal boxplot minimal barchart slopegraph sparklines stem-and-leaf display It's a living … [Read more...]
Overview of Microsoft R Server
Learning Tree just published my overview of Microsoft R Server. … [Read more...]
The cost of bad data
Lemonly, a data visualization company, have produced an intriguing infographic on the cost of bad data. Read the full blog post. … [Read more...]
What Nathan Yau uses to visualize data
Nathan Yau of FlowingData has published an up-to-date list of what he uses to turn raw data into his impressive visualizations. What's always striking about the tools he uses is that there's no "quick fix". He utilizes a range of industry standard data manipulation (e.g. R) and graphic design (e.g. Adobe Illustrator) tools in his work. I particularly liked his comments on processing and … [Read more...]