Data Visualization Projects

Examples of Visualizations Created for #TidyTuesday

#TidyTuesday
Data Visualization
Author

Aditya Dahiya

Published

April 24, 2024

Hey there, data enthusiasts! Feast your eyes on the visualizations meticulously crafted by yours truly. This spectacle unfolds every week as part of the #TidyTuesday Movement, a data-driven extravaganza ignited by the blazing passion of the R4DS Online Learning Community. We’re not just talking about any data; we’re talking about real-world datasets that pack a punch and make learning to dance with data a riveting experience.

But wait, there’s more! Before you dive headfirst into this visual feast, I’ve laid out the secrets behind the magic – the code, the portal to the dataset, and a description.

Welcome to the future of visual storytelling – where data meets design in a symphony of awe-inspiring graphics. Let the adventure begin! 🚀📊✨

2023

Week 46: Diwali Sales

Diwali Sales at #TidyTuesday | Code | Data

Week 47: R-Ladies Chapter Events

R-Ladies Chapter Events at #TidyTuesday | Code | Data

Week 48: Doctor Who Episodes

Doctor Who Episodes at #TidyTuesday | Code | Data

Week 49: Life Expectancy

Life Expectancy (Our World in Data) at #TidyTuesday | Code | Data

Week 50: Holiday Movies

Holiday Movies by IMDb non-commercial datasets at #TidyTuesday | Code | Data

Week 51: Holiday Episodes

Holiday Episodes by IMDb non-commercial datasets at #TidyTuesday | Code | Data

Week 52: R Packages Structure

Historical Trends in R Package Structure and Inter-dependency on CRAN by Mark Padgham and Noam Ross at #TidyTuesday


2024

Week 1: Movie Theaters in Delhi (India)

Movie Theatre Data for 8 Indian Cities by Harsha Devulapalli at #TidyTuesday | Code | Data

Week 2: Canadian Hockey Player Birth Months

Inspired by Are Birth Dates Still Destiny for Canadian NHL Players? by JLaw at #TidyTuesday | Code | Data

Code for another graph with the same data.

Week 3: US Polling Places 2012-2020

US Polling Places 2012-2020 by Center for Public Integrity at #TidyTuesday | Code | Data

Week 4: Educational attainment of young people in English towns

Why do children and young people in smaller towns do better academically than those in larger towns? by The UK Office for National Statistics at #TidyTuesday | Code | Data

Week 5: Groundhog Day predictions

Groundhog predictions by groundhog-day.com at #TidyTuesday | Code | Data

Week 6: World heritage sites

World heritage sites by UNESCO World Heritage Sites at #TidyTuesday | Code | Data

Week 7: Valentine’s Day Consumer Data

Valentine’s Day survey data by National Retail Federation’s Valentine’s Day Data Center at #TidyTuesday | Code | Data


Week 8: R Consortium ISC Grants

R Consortium ISC Funded Projects’ data by R Consortium at the Linux Foundation Projects at #TidyTuesday | Code | Data


Week 9: Leap Day

Data from the February 29 article on Wikipedia at #TidyTuesday | Code | Data


Week 10: Trash Wheel Collection Data

This week’s Trash Wheel Collection Data comes from the Mr. Trash Wheel at the Baltimore Healthy Harbor initiative at #TidyTuesday | Code | Data


Week 11: Fiscal Sponsors

The dataset comes from the Fiscal Sponsor Directory, which analyzed their directory in March 2023. | #TidyTuesday | Code | Data

The stream-plots show the popularity of different fiscal sponsorship models over the years amongst 4 major fields of project-sponsorship. Of late, the Model C (Pre-approved Grant Relationship) has become most popular.

Week 12: X-Men Mutant Money-Ball

This week’s data is X-Men Mutant Moneyball from Rally’s Mutant moneyball: a data driven ultimate X-men by Anderson Evans | #TidyTuesday | Code | Data


Week 13: NCAA Men’s March Madness

This week’s data is NCAA Men’s March Madness data from Nishaan Amin’s Kaggle dataset and analysis Bracketology: predicting March Madness | #TidyTuesday | Code | Data


Week 14: Du Bois Visualization Challenge 2024

This week is organized around the colors of the Pan African Flag. We reproduce plate 37, “A Series Of Statistical Charts Illustrating The Conditions Of Descendants Of Formal African Slaves Now Resident In The Unites States.” | Data | Tools Used: Code + Inkscape + Powerpoint


Week 15: 2023 & 2024 US Solar Eclipses

This week we’re looking at the paths of solar eclipses in the United States. The data comes from NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio. | Code.


Week 16: Shiny Packages

What is the most popular way in which packages are connected to Shiny? The data comes from ShinyConf2024 and Shiny on CRAN | Data | Code.


Week 17: Objects Launched into Space

In Figure 1, we explore the annual number of objects launched into outer space! Our World in Data processed the data from the Online Index of Objects Launched into Outer Space, maintained by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs since 1962. Taken from Data is Plural, April 10, 2024 edition.

Figure 1: An animated racing line chart of cumulative number of objects launched into outer space by top 8 countries. Russia (erstwhile USSR) dominated till 2010s, but with coming of SpaceX, USA has far outnumbered all other countries.