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Thomas Lin Pedersen

7 months

Metaverse A shared and ever-evolving meditation on our community Presented as part of the Uncomputer exhibition at @weareunitlondon

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Thomas Lin Pedersen

@thomasp85

4 years

Toying with the idea of giving my latest #ggplot2 workshop as a free webinar since we are all working from home anyway... would anyone be interested in that? #rstats

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Thomas Lin Pedersen

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Python data scientist

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What do you call this job?

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I am thrilled to announce that #ggplot2 v3.3.0 has landed on CRAN. This release is filled to the brim with new features that you can read more about here #rstats

ggplot2 3.3.0 - Tidyverse

The next iteration of ggplot2 has just been released on CRAN, packed with new features and bug fixes. Read all about what's new here.

www.tidyverse.org

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If you want to get up to speed with #ggplot2 and its extended universe of packages I've released free recordings of my "Plotting Anything with ggplot2" workshop. Have fun! #rstats ~4.5h of video so find a comfy chair🙂

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gganimate has reached the gapminder state of its development as transition_time() has been added #rstats p + ... + transition_time(year) + ease_aes('linear')

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“Algorithms dont have bias”

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Oh no.

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Reminder: I'll be giving a free #ggplot2 webinar tomorrow at 8.30 PM CET. Come join me and let us all exit the quarantine a bit more educated than we came in. #rstats Link to the live stream:

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So so excited 🎉🎉🎉 patchwork is now on CRAN

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I am beyond excited to finally share what I've spend most of last year working on. Read all about the huge step forward in font rendering and font support in #rstats

Modern Text Features in R - Tidyverse

ragg has taken a major leap forward in text-rendering capabilities with the latest releases of systemfonts, textshaping, and ragg itself. This post will go into detail with what is now possible and...

www.tidyverse.org

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2 years

I'm proud to be able to release Screens on @artblocks_io next monday as part of their curated collection. Screens is by far my most accomplished piece of work ever and I can't wait to see the mints

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Me, waves son over: “I’ve got something to show you” Son, runs over: “what is it dad?” Me, points at laptop: “Look at this!” Son, perplexed: “what is that, dad?” Me: “GitHub issues — look, this one is almost 5 years old” Son: “...” Me: “one day all of these will be yours!”

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🎉🎉🎉 I am beyond excited to finally release ggraph v2, a major upgrade that has been in the works for years. If you are into #dataviz and network analysis, this is for you! #rstats

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Todays reload of the generator

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I am super excited to finally give ggforce the update it deserves. Read all about the new CRAN release here #rstats #ggplot2

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ggplot2 3.2.0 has been released! 🎉🎉🎉 Big thanks to @ClausWilke and @paleolimbot and all the many contributors who has worked on this release

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my god I hate everything related to installing anything related to Python

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@thomasp85

4 years

Have you ever cursed at your computer trying to get the right sizing of text etc in plots when you render it to a file? This one trick will help you regain sanity! #rstats

Taking Control of Plot Scaling - Tidyverse

Learn how to control scaling of the content in your plot when you render plots to different sizes.

www.tidyverse.org

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ok, one more...

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Big news in #ggplot2 land (development version). A new aesthetic has landed: Meet "linewidth". Prior to this "size" was used to scale both area and width based traits, but those are two very different things and we are making amends now. #rstats

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A few of you thought this was a good idea. Some updates I will hold the first half of this as a Youtube live stream on Tuesday 24th at 8.30 pm CET. Expected duration is 2-2.5 hours Link to stream:

Thomas Lin Pedersen

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Toying with the idea of giving my latest #ggplot2 workshop as a free webinar since we are all working from home anyway... would anyone be interested in that? #rstats

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Thomas Lin Pedersen

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So this happened. I’m extremely excited to be working with this team and take R graphics to the next level!

Hadley Wickham

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6 years

Excited to announce that @thomasp85 has joined my team at @rstudio 🎉🇩🇰😀 His initial project is making ggplot2, grid, and #rstats graphics in general, much much faster!

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Generative countdown

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Yas!!! The geom_mark family in ggforce gets automatically placed labels (+description) for supercharged annotations in #ggplot2 #rstats

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ggplot2 3.5.0 is on it's way to CRAN 🎉🎉🎉 This is a big one and is in large part the work of @TeunvandenBrand . The new features will be spread out over several blog posts, starting with this:

ggplot2 3.5.0 - Tidyverse

ggplot2 3.5.0 is now on CRAN. Discover what is new in this release.

www.tidyverse.org

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New compulsory patchwork feature that I'm sure everyone will love...

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Sexism

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Really enjoying this... #generative #rtistry

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Most high-fidelity render yet... A whooping 37 million particles was used #rstats #generative

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Thomas Lin Pedersen

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it's getting way too late over here

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This is now done — the link should contain the recording for later consumption Takeaways 1️⃣Speaking for 2.5h straight is hard 2️⃣Not seeing people’s faces is weird but not as weird as expected 3️⃣Somehow ~500 stuck out to the end😬 Thank you all for joining me. I hope you had fun

Thomas Lin Pedersen

@thomasp85

4 years

Reminder: I'll be giving a free #ggplot2 webinar tomorrow at 8.30 PM CET. Come join me and let us all exit the quarantine a bit more educated than we came in. #rstats Link to the live stream:

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Screens #160

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Thomas Lin Pedersen

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gganimate has been released on CRAN — happy new year! #rstats #dataviz

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Coming soon to a package near you...

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enjoy your weekend

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Accurate ()

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ggplot ggplot2 ggplot3D ggplot4ever ggplot: Renegades ggplot vs lattice ggplot Remastered

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Thomas Lin Pedersen

@thomasp85

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ggforce 0.3.0 has landed on CRAN. Star of the show is a facet for creating scatterplot matrices and beyond. Read all about it in the blog post #rstats #ggplot2

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🎉🎉🎉 this makes me very proud to announce. #ggraph is now on CRAN 🎉🎉🎉 #ggplot2 #rstats #dataviz

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Thomas Lin Pedersen

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Some nice words about why one should consider R as a platform for making art

Generative Art and R

Generative Art Weekly #015

generative.substack.com

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So, this is a bit unreal…

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So... I've been working on an @artblocks_io project

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Screens #921

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I am super happy to announce that ggfx is now on CRAN. Some may disagree out of misguided “taste”, but I believe this is a huge step forward for the graphics system in #rstats

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Great example of the annotation power that ggplot2 + extensions now provides

⚽️Ryo Nakagawara📊

@R_by_Ryo

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⚽️ Goal-Contribution Matrix for the Premier League! Special focus on Eden Hazard, Jamie Vardy, Glen Murray, and Ryan Fraser. Made with #rstats 📊 ( #ggplot2 + #ggforce ) Code: #spoana #dataviz #EPL

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Everything will be converted to a date though...

The Verge

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Microsoft Excel now lets you convert photos of data tables into a fully editable table

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I’ve been working on a “getting started” article for gganimate. Not completely done, but if you have lacked this sort of guide I’d appreciate comments on the current form

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I'm happy to announce a new version of patchwork has landed on CRAN. Read all about the new features here: #rstats

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I'm stuck at home so I've written a blog post about doing vectorisation in R, and since you are probably also stuck at home you might as well read it...

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@thomasp85

6 years

For all your subplot tagging needs. patchwork gains autotagging with optional nesting awareness... #rstats

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ggplot2 3.3.4 just landed on CRAN. This is predominantly a bug fix release, but a big one at that. Many thanks to the maintainer team and all the contributors🙏🙏🙏

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Thomas Lin Pedersen

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The last part of my free #ggplot2 will take place next thursday April 2nd at 8.30 PM CET. It will focus on the extended universe and how you move beyond "base" ggplot2. I hope I'll be seeing you all again for more fun and corona escapism #rstats Link:

Thomas Lin Pedersen

@thomasp85

4 years

This is now done — the link should contain the recording for later consumption Takeaways 1️⃣Speaking for 2.5h straight is hard 2️⃣Not seeing people’s faces is weird but not as weird as expected 3️⃣Somehow ~500 stuck out to the end😬 Thank you all for joining me. I hope you had fun

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just more than tripled the speed of geom_sf... in case anyone is interested in spatial plotting...

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Yesterday I had the pleasure of releasing Screens, my most ambitious generative art project to date. I'm so thankful for all the positive vibes I've felt around this project from the community ❤️ (I cannot reply to everything from yesterday) Stay tuned for more...

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Slides and exercise from my #ggplot2 workshop at #celebRation2020 are now online at

GitHub - thomasp85/ggplot2_workshop: Material for "Drawing Anything with ggplot2" workshop

Material for "Drawing Anything with ggplot2" workshop - thomasp85/ggplot2_workshop

github.com

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Screens #395 - My biggest surprise from the collection was this one - at first I had no idea what was going on. There are other surprises in the collection but this is the only emerging look I had never imagined possible

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This is a surreal timeline... having my art shown on time square was not in my plans for 2022

Curated

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@larvalabs @_deafbeef @lphaCentauriKid @Mad_Dog_Jones @seerlight Screens by @thomasp85

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Pretty excited to be working on some actual new features for ggplot2. Behold, a new type of scale! #rstats

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ggplot2 3.3.2 is now on CRAN. This is a patch release aimed at fixing regressions and issues in 3.3.0. It includes improvements to the bidirectional geom detection, moving of geom_density to the new contouring algorithm, and more. Thanks to the whole team for their work! #rstats

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Love them animations but pine for the good old days of PDFs and beamer presentations? gganimate can now write animations to pdf (if you open it with Adobe Acrobat)

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This represent my biggest submission to R and is a huge step in making grid graphics as fast as base

new (faster) implementation of 'grid' units · wch/r-source@f9b8a42

git-svn-id: https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk@77889 00db46b3-68df-0310-9c12-caf00c1e9a41

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More or less done with the genesis system (for now at least). These were some of my favourites #generative #rstats

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More patchwork goodies. I've had this on the horizon since I started the package #rstats

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so... I have procrastinated... #rstats #gganimate

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I don’t know, man...

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This little animation is significant, if only for the fact that it was produced by the following code: ggplot(mtcars, aes(factor(cyl), mpg)) + geom_boxplot() + geom_point() + transition_states(am, transition_length = 4, state_length = 1)

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Warming up to patchwork development with a new feature. CSS-grid inspired full control over the placement of plots #rstats

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Screens #876

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QQL #61 by @tylerxhobbs and @dandelion_wist with some inputs from me... "Surfing Saturn"

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Enjoy your weekend Folding Flow 41 - old piece

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Yonder14 — The Great Wave of Here and There Single Edition available on @hicetnunc2000 . First purchase includes a unique print, signed and shipped #generative #rtistry #CleanNFTs

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My keynote on the grammar of animation and gganimate is now available for streaming #rstats

The Grammar of Animation

In the world of data visualisation much work has been put into defining a grammar for both static and interactive graphics. These efforts has often been coup...

www.youtube.com

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The last of the main grammar-classes in gganimate gets its spotlight: ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, disp)) + geom_point(size = 4, alpha = 1) + transition_states(gear, transition_length = 4, state_length = 1) + shadow_wake(wake_length = 0.05)

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gm - last I'll be sharing for a while so you don't tire of it before it's done

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Not in any way done, but with enough functionality to justify a webpage. Read more about the scope and functionality of euclid here:

euclid: A foundation for computational geometry in R

An R package that provides exact geometric data types in R, along with basic operations and predicates on them. euclid builds upon the 2 and 3 dimensional linear geometry kernel from CGAL.

r-euclid.com

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Getting close...

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Last example done for my @useR2018_conf keynote, showing the automagical transformation of shapes provided by gganimate, courtesy of transformr #rstats

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One of the most impressive uses of particles and transformr

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Don't trust choropleth maps. Evidence from Switzerland! 😉 #RStats Shout-outs to @thomasp85 for {transformr}/{particles}, @hadleywickham et al. for {ggplot2}/{dplyr}, @edzerpebesma for {sf}, @politan_ch for {swissdd} and @hrbrmstr for {hrbrthemes}. ➡️

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ggfx now supports grouping of layers (much like layer groups in photoshop etc.) An example: Suppose you have a plot with several layers and you want to add a drop shadow to the layers (for reasons...). You could do this:

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... and just like that, the game changed...

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Never question the power of animated data viz #gganimate by @lenkiefer

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We all knew we needed this, but didn't dare to ask: inner and outer glow filters have been added to ggfx #rstats

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Screens prints are finally happening — just collected the first batch to be shipped out

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With the sudden rise in patchwork interest due to some viral-y tweet, I thought I should amplify that #patchwork and #ggiraph works together for interactive linking and brushing (and almost by accident). #rstats #ggplot2

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@eric_bickel @thomasp85 It should be ok now :)

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What happens when you start #rstats ? Well, it's quite simple, it's just...

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The greatest of Tuftes contributions to data visualisation in recent years are his obnoxious tweets prompting a flurry of replies with great resources proving him wrong, thus helping the spread of said ressources

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The whole geom_mark_*() family together at last - adaptive annotation of your data! #ggforce #ggplot2 #rstats

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I've added a chapter on network visualisation to the ggplot2 book. Comments welcome

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Breaking out, breaking free... This will be the last NFT from the Constructive series

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#genuary2021 — Provide me with a palette and tell me not to use any gradients, and I'll show you a way to game the system. This is a perfect excuse to play with dithering and the lovely grainy texture it can produce ﹟264653 ﹟2a9d8f ﹟e9c46a ﹟f4a261 ﹟e76f51, no gradients.

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It is heartwarming to see the #rstats community’s response to the abysmal handling of the sexual harassment incident by Datacamp. I hope companies take note that this community has non-negotiable standards no matter the quality of your product

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This is honestly the best use of animation in data visualisation I’ve seen in years

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3 animations provided by NASA scientist suggests the speed of light is frustratingly slow Credit James O’Donoghue, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

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Hot on the heels of the new guide collection functionality in patchwork comes guide_area() for putting said collected guides in an empty area of the grid #rstats

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Screens is a generative system that, while having a clear visual identity, spans a wide array of sentiments: chaotic vs harmonic

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