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Analyzing player performance with animated charts!

Analytics is by definition, the process of identifying, discovering and interpreting patterns in data. There are different ways of capturing these patterns through charts (bar, pie, cumulative data, moving average etc.). One such way is the motion or animated chart which captures the changes in data across different time periods. This was made famous by Hans Rosling in his Gapminder charts. In…

Animated monte-carlo simulation with gganimate in R

In one of my previous posts I introduced monte-carlo simulation by demonstrating how one can assess the risk associated to a stock price using monte-carlo simulation. As described in my overview of simulation techniques for supply chain analysts and operations research specialists monte-carlo is one of the widely applied simulation techniques in supply chain management and operations management.…

Animating ggplot2 histograms with gganimate

I have already published various posts containing gganimate animations. For R programmers or analysts with profciency in R this is a very interesting package. It converts ggplot2-plots into animations. See e.g. my blog post introducing comtradr for international trade analysis (containing an animation created with gganimate) and my post containing spatial data animations of spatial specimen…

Analyzing global commodity trade with comtradr in R

This post covers comtradr, a commodity trade data querying package available in R. This package is an interface and provides acces to the UN Comtrade Database API. It has its focus on commodities. It allows you to query economic import and export data. This makes it a very useful package for high-level economic supply chain analysis or high-level strategic foreign trade analysis. Hence, it is…

Spatial data animation with ggmap and gganimate: A use case example

Following a series of introductionary posts on spatial data visualization in R, covering packages such as ggmap, leaflet, tidygeocoder, geopy, deckgl and osmdata, I here present a framework utilizing some relevant packages. The framework was developed in R. It was implemented in a real-world project and was used to visualize the spread of defined groups. Members of these groups were registerered…

A Visual Demonstration of a Chi Squared Test

In the simplest terms, a Chi Squared Test can be used to test for independence between two categorical variables. For example, does left- or right-handedness correlate with gender? Does dessert preference correlate with favourite sports team? Do more smokers die from lung cancer or other causes? This information can be presented in a contingency table which demonstrates the number of people in…

Japan’s aging population, animated with R

The US Census makes a number of its databases available to developers via the Census API. One of those databases is the International Data Base, in which the Census department provides historic demographic breakdowns (population by age and sex) for many countries, along with projections through 2050. Kyle Walker created the R package idbr (currently only available on GitHub) to make it easy to download these datasets using R, and used it to create the animation below showing Japan's demographic change since 1990. [keep reading]