December 4th, 2012
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chartsnthings: R tutorial: Simple charts

chartsnthings:

Here’s a (still getting tweaked) R tutorial for the charts in the last post. Here’s the data you’ll need to download.

Set your working directory to wherever you want to work out of (usually a project folder)

setwd("/Users/pathToMyFolder...")

Next, load the data. Any format is fine, but our…

Kevin Quealy, graphics editor at the New York Times, gave a great presentation at ONACamp Minnesota last weekend. He’s pulled together these useful notes so you too can build charts like a champ. 

More resources from ONACamp Minnesota coming soon. 

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  1. learnfrominfo reblogged this from chartsnthings and added:
    From simple charts to the NYT.
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  5. jour72312 reblogged this from chartsnthings and added:
    I’ll keep saying this, I bet:...fine tuning visual encoding.
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    Kevin Quealy, graphics editor at...New York Times, gave
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    YESSSSSSSSS
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    don’t have enough things...do, I’m trying
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