Blog Posts 📝 Making Visualizations Literally with Svelte & D3 July 2021 Why Svelte has replaced (and complemented) D3 as my go-to tool for powerful visualizations Including R in your Flat Data Workflow May 2021 Fetch and clean data automatically with GitHub Actions + R Announcing the Nuxt Blog Starter February 2021 A minimal, content-focused blog site built with NuxtJS and Bulma. COVID-19 Posts: A Novel Dataset October 2020 Making hundreds of COVID-19 blog posts from the R community available for public use COVID on Campus October 2020 Where university reopenings led to spikes in COVID-19 case counts Firearm Background Checks Are Spiking July 2020 Visualizing the precipitous rise in gun sales during COVID-19 Animating Your Hugo Academic Site July 2020 Make your Hugo Academic homepage more engaging with a few lines of code How (and Why) to Add a Chart to Your D3.js Tooltip June 2020 A few lines of code can make your D3 tooltips significantly more informative Recreating a Table by The Economist Using Reactable May 2020 Recreating a table by The Economist entirely in R, using {reactable} Create Dumbbell Plots to Visualize Group Differences in R March 2020 How to create dumbbell plots in R, using {ggalt} Trends in Refugee Acceptance, 2002 to 2019 February 2020 Or, how a single line of code can create a beautiful small multiples US map. Color in Data Visualization: Less How, More Why January 2020 An overview of the use of color in data visualization Using Shiny to Replicate a Bloomberg Graphics December 2019 Leveraging the power of {shiny} for static graphics Create a Streetmap of Any City in R November 2019 Creating a beautiful streetmap of my hometown, exclusively in R How to Combine Animated Plots in R October 2019 Leveraging the power of {gganimate} and {magick} to combine animated plots for your viewers. How to Scrollytell in R: Automation and Its Impact on Jobs September 2019 Because its easier than doing it in D3 My First Package! Introducing tpltheme July 2019 Introducing {tpltheme}, a toolkit to create publication-ready plots in the style of the Texas Policy Lab.