The economic impact of major recent natural disasters. Updated 538 chart.
FiveThirtyEight published an original chart showing the losses from hurricanes, floods, storms and droughts in the summer of 2017. I...
FiveThirtyEight published an original chart showing the losses from hurricanes, floods, storms and droughts in the summer of 2017. I...
Today, I will try to replicate a unit chart created by FiveThirtyEight a few years ago. According to the Data School: "Unit charts are a...
To make this Economist chart we need to split this project into two phases. In phase 1, we will create a gantt chart to depict a timeline...
The New York City ambulance workers are finally getting a pay raise. New York Fire Department (FDNY) Bureau of Medical Services is a...
An analysis of payroll records of the NYC firefighters who worked a minimum of 2080 hours in the fiscal year of 2020. A total of 8,000...
For this project, I am replicating a data visual created by Financial Times. While it was not difficult to make circles, barplot, and...
Keep it simple: avoid messing with dates, conversions and mixed data formats, especially with the difference charts. I tried to use the...
In the previous post, I tried to make a difference chart using monthly data. Working with annual datasets turned out to be a much easier...
A short summary of tweaking this chart: there has to be a better way! Here is why. The basic idea behind the difference charts is to...
Working with the dataset from the previous post I selected three companies and highlighted a stock price of Facebook. I think it is a...
Tinkering with lines, subsetting, labels, and text in R. Drawing a basic line chart in R is a relatively easy task. Below is my attempt...
Pinterest (PINS) went public in April 2019. For almost a year, its stock price bouncing roughly between $10 to $30 hitting the low point...
Unlike Excel, it is very easy to create all kinds of small multiples or panel charts. All you have to do is to arrange data and write...
Index charts can be very useful when you want to compare the performance over time. But these charts can also be very confusing when you...
Dogecoin has been on the rise since February 2021 sparking a fierce debate whether or not a joke cryptocurrency deserves so much...
Just a random Google Trends search query that prompts a lot of questions.
The R code for this "event" map / chart is not difficult: just layout your data in a CSV file and apply "sapply" function to color...
In January 2021, Quartz wrote that George Orwell's 1984 toped the list of bestsellers on Amazon. In January 2017, similar reports flooded...
If you get caught breaking law, you probably don't want to be in Serbia. And if you want to recreate this chart made by the Economist,...
Tom Brady led Buccaneers to their first play-off victory since 2002. Was anyone surprised? After all Tom Brady has a well-documented...