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Visualization and Beyond…

A bunch of giraffes, all bundled up

ggraph 2.2.0 has been released. This was definitely not supposed to be a feature release, yet here we are…
Feb 28, 2024

A small patch of free features

patchwork 1.2.0 is out with two outstanding new features. Read on to learn more
Jan 8, 2024

A new focus on tidygraph

A new tidygraph release is out. Read here what’s new in v1.3.0
Dec 18, 2023

Say Goodbye to “Good Taste”

I’m happy to announce the formal release of ggfx. My gift to myself after a year of font rendering work and a package certain to annoy any data visualisation purists in the neighbourhood.
Mar 31, 2021

Insetting a new patchwork version

A new version of patchwork has reached CRAN, read on to find out which new features it brings…
Nov 9, 2020

A noisy start

A huge update to ambient is finally on CRAN… mostly because I forgot to submit it a year ago 😬
Mar 18, 2020

Vectorising like a (semi)pro

A short and practical introduction to what vectorising in R really is all about
Mar 15, 2020

Don’t be a Dick

It’s not that difficult…
Dec 13, 2019

Patch it up and send it out

Finally! Patchwork has finally been released on CRAN. Finally! No Joke… It’s all there! Go check it out.
Dec 1, 2019

The Colour of Everything

Colours are a central aspect of many visualisations, and a new release of the farver package is ready to supercharge colour manipulation in R.
Nov 13, 2019

1 giraffe, 2 giraffe, GO!

After what seems like a lifetime, ggraph v2 has been released on CRAN. It packs many improvements, new features, bug fixes, and a tighter integration with tidygraph. Read all about it here…
Sep 2, 2019

A Flurry of Facets

ggforce 0.3.0 has landed on CRAN, a mere 5 months since the last release, showing my commitment to a more incremental release cycle. It doesn’t skip on cool features though…
Aug 8, 2019

The ggforce Awakens (again)

After more than 2 years of hibernation the ggforce package is back in full force. Get the sense of this major release in this blog post.
Mar 7, 2019

gganimate has transitioned to a state of release

After being the primary focus of my spare time for almost a year, gganimate has finally landed on CRAN. I hope you’ll enjoy using it as much as I’ve enjoyed developing it.
Jan 3, 2019

Entering and Exiting 2018

My year in review… It has been quite a ride!
Jan 2, 2019

transformr: Age of Spatial

Wondering what powers the polygon transitions in gganimate? The package is transformr and it has just landed on CRAN
Dec 9, 2018

The tweenr is all grown up

A new tweenr version is out and this post tells you all you need to know to make the transition
Oct 22, 2018

What Are We Plotting, What Are We Animating

… wherein I open Pandoras box when it comes to interpolating data for animations
Sep 24, 2018

Scico and the Colour Conundrum

scico is now available on CRAN, ready to spread sensible colours to the world. In this post I’ll show the few functions that it brings and talk a bit more in general why colour is something to think about when plotting data
May 30, 2018

lime v0.4: The kitten picture edition

The new version of lime adds support for image models as well as build-in support for keras models and range of other tweaks
Mar 6, 2018

Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow

particles, my R port of the d3-force algorithm, is now on CRAN — read on to find out why you should care!
Feb 22, 2018

tidygraph 1.1 – A tidy hope

I’m very happy to present the next version of tidygraph to the world, a release which is more than anything else a feature release bringing many new possibilities for your network analysis workflow.
Feb 12, 2018

Looking Back on 2017

Everything that ever happened in 2017 - Eyes of the beholder may apply
Dec 22, 2017

Setting fire to deployment: Heroku

In this blog post I’ll show one way of deploying fiery web services: As a Heroku app.
Nov 6, 2017

Moving to Blogdown

A short post about my descision to move from Jekyll to Blogdown/Hugo
Oct 29, 2017
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