Series: ggplot2-tips

Calendar Plots With ggplot2

Today I’m showing you ggplot techniques to create calendar plots in no time.

Aug 4, 2024
12 min

Text Styling With ggplot2

Today I’m showing you ggplot techniques that give you full control over your texts. This includes dynamic text colors (depending on the background) and customizations using the brand-new marquee package.

Jul 21, 2024
9 min

Quick dataViz techniques for nicer line charts with ggplot

Today I’m showing you a couple of quick ggplot techniques that you can apply to quickly make your line charts nicer

Jul 7, 2024
10 min

How to avoid empty line charts

Today we’re finding out what goes wrong then ggplot can plot the lines that we want to plot.

Jun 30, 2024
12 min

Why you shouldn’t use boxplots

In this blog post, I explain why it’s not a great idea to rely too heavily on box plots.

Jun 9, 2024
17 min

How to create interactive country maps with R.

In this blog post, I show you how to create interactive maps with ggplot.

May 19, 2024
10 min

Three Ways to Include Images in Your ggplots

In this blog post, I show you three ways to include image files into your ggplot2 plots

Apr 7, 2024
8 min

Creating upset charts with ggplot2

In this blog post, I show you how to create upset charts with ggplot2

Mar 24, 2024
11 min

How to create diverging bar plots

In this blog post, we are going to recreate a beautiful diverging bar plot from the PEW Research Center.

Feb 25, 2024
22 min

Dot plots as an alternative to bar charts

Bar charts are great for comparing categories. But dot plots put more emphasis on individual data points. In this blog post, I show you how to create such an alternative plot with ggplot2.

Feb 11, 2024
9 min

Correlation heat maps with {ggplot2}

I show you how to create a correlation heat map with {ggplot2}, how to avoid using the wrong colors and how to use some nice variations of standard heat maps.

Feb 4, 2024
21 min

Combining maps and patterns with {ggplot2}

In this video I show you how you can create a map of the US with patterns inside of state borders.

Jan 28, 2024
8 min

6 Common ggplot2 Mistakes

Here’s a list of some beginner’s mistakes when it comes to ggplot (and how to avoid them)

Jan 14, 2024
8 min

5 Powerful ggplot2 Extensions

ggplot2 is powerful on its own but there are some extensions that make ggplot2 even better. In this blog post, I show you some of the best extensions.

Jan 7, 2024
8 min

5 Example Charts with ggplot2

ggplot2 is an incredibly powerful tool to create great charts with R. But it can be hard to keep all the moving parts in mind in the beginning. So, it helps to have a few examples to get started. In this blog post I show you how to create the most common chart types with ggplot2.

Dec 17, 2023
17 min

The Ultimate Guide to Get Started With ggplot2

ggplot2 is an incredibly powerful tool to create great charts with R. But it has a bit of a learning curve. This tutorial shows you everything you need to know to get started with ggplot

Nov 22, 2023
41 min

Creating interactive visualizations with {ggiraph} (with or without Shiny)

It is really simple to turn a ggplot into an interactive visualization. In this blog post you’ll learn how to do that with {ggiraph}. Also we’ll explore ways to enhance the interactivity with Shiny.

Feb 23, 2023
23 min

Bar plot checklist

Bar charts are easy to make but hard to perfect. Let’s create a small checklist to make things easier.

Nov 21, 2022
7 min

Alternatives to paired bar charts

We take a look at a couple alternatives to paired bar charts.

Oct 22, 2022
13 min

Forget regular heat maps. Use bubbles on a grid!

We explore alternatives for heat maps to take sample sizes into account.

Aug 10, 2022
8 min

Alternative ways to visualize correlations

We explore alternative correlation matrix plots.

Aug 1, 2022
7 min

5 hidden gems from gg-packages to level up your dataviz game

This blog post is a quick one. It highlights a few hidden gems (functions) from well-known or not so well-known packages.

Jul 27, 2022
11 min

Storytelling in ggplot using rounded rectangles

We build rebuild a ‘Storytelling with Data’ plot which uses rounded rectangles. I’ll show you an easy and a hard way to make rectangles round.

May 4, 2022
19 min

Recreating the Storytelling with Data look with ggplot

We try to imitate the Storytelling with Data look with ggplot

Mar 29, 2022
19 min

How to use functional programming for ggplot

Functional programming is a mighty sword. Today, we use it to avoid tedious repetitions when things go wrong in ggplot.

Mar 25, 2022
7 min

How to use Fonts and Icons in ggplot

This is a short tutorial on how to import fonts and icons in R using the showtext package.

Mar 4, 2022
7 min

4 Ways to use colors in ggplot more efficiently

Inspired by a datawrapper blogpost, we explore how to work with fewer colors in ggplot.

Feb 19, 2022
13 min

ggplot-tips: Learning by Thieving

I advocate to take part in the TidyTuesday events to learn with and from others.

Jan 10, 2022
4 min

A couple of visualizations from ggforce

The ggplot2-tips series is continued with a few example plots from the ggforce package

Dec 31, 2021
9 min

ggplot tips: Arranging plots

The patchwork and ggforce packages can be used to compose plots from multiple subplots. Let’s have a look at how that works.

Oct 28, 2021
9 min

ggplot tips: Using position_stack() for Individual Positioning

We take a look at the differences between position = ‘stack’ and position = position_stack().

Sep 11, 2021
4 min

ggplot tips: Assigning Labels to an Aesthetic

We talk about how to easily create labels for an aesthetic.

Aug 19, 2021
6 min

Beginning a ggplot2 Series: Logarithmize Your Scales

This is the beginning of a series about a few ggplot2 tricks I picked up along the way. In this first installment we talk about how logarithmizing scales can be beneficial.

Aug 7, 2021
6 min
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