Posts tagged: ggplot2

One of my 2021 resolutions was to engage with Tidy Tuesday more often. I’ve dabbled in the past but never recorded my work or published it. This week’s data was a catalogue of the Tate collection, and there have been some rather fantastic visualisations1, no doubt inspired by the fact the subject matter is art. The other week I saw a tweet by Ijeamaka Anyene showcasing some fabulous artistic plots made in R by using the coord_polar() function within {ggplot2}.

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My last post explored using the {tidymodels} package with data about the Eurovision Song Contest1. One of the best things to do when exploring a dataset is to visualise it, so let’s also use this dataset to learn about the {gganimate} package that provides ways to create animated charts. We’ll reuse the eurovision_scores dataset produced from the code in my last post. First let’s take a look at UK performance over time, we also need to filter out data from 1991 where Sweden and France both gained 146 points (but due to the complex rules in place at the time Sweden won, however under the current rules France would have won).