lisacrost

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Charting tool integrates color blindness simulator that flags problematic colors(blog.datawrapper.de)
2 points by lisacrost 9y ago|0 comments
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by lisacrost 10y ago
Approximately half of the population can’t find themselves and their planned vote on the US election maps on FiveThirtyEight, the New York Times or the Washington Post. In this blog post I argue that we should show not just the electoral vo
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Why US election maps should show both the popular and the electoral votes(lisacharlotterost.github.io)
3 points by lisacrost 10y ago|1 comments
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by lisacrost 10y ago
Oh I'm glad to hear that! Let me know if you have any ideas for future blog posts :)
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by lisacrost 10y ago
Looks great for big datasets; respect! A small thing: Why did you decide to bring the "Modifier" panel to the right-hand side of the screen? Lyra is doing the same thing. It results in SUCH a long way to drag your variables. Besid
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by lisacrost 10y ago
Great point! I'm surprised that nobody else noticed that so far :) sometimes I set the values to log because I couldn't find an option to set the scale to log, but you're right, in R and ggplot2 I should use your described op
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by lisacrost 10y ago
Hi there, author here. I agree that the post is "not useful to select a library", especially because it just compares one very specific visualisation form. I'm working on a third, more high-level view on data vis tools and ho
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by lisacrost 10y ago
Hi there, thanks so much! I also tried 12 applications for data vis here; including Tableau: http://lisacharlotterost.github.io/2016/05/17/one-chart-tool...
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by lisacrost 10y ago
Sorry for that; fixed it!
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by lisacrost 10y ago
Hi, author here. Plotly was the biggest surprise for me when I was writing the two blog posts, and I definitely want to try out plotly.js as well. Could take a few weeks, though :) Go ahead and recreate that chart yourself! I already had Jo
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by lisacrost 10y ago
Hm, I don't think you can speak for everybody. I find myself (re)creating a chart in R quite often. I sometimes create visualisations for print, and I just want an SVG or PDF to then import to Illustrator. Before I knew that you can ex
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by lisacrost 11y ago
Oh merci!