Cavs players were hooked up to a lie detector and asked if they scrub their feet in the shower.

how to use ggplot2 to make a leaderboard plot

thef5.substack.com/p/how-to-cre...

The Coolest Basketball Data Viz Ever Made

#WNBA #NBA #NBADataViz #NBAviz

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on monday, i taught a “0 to portfolio website” workshop to undergrads. if you haven’t tried out #quarto to build a personal site, it is a DELIGHT to use and quick to get started.

my slides are minimal, but highlight all the steps to get started + deploy on github: isabelizimm.me/talks/2025-f...

The viridis palettes are great perceptually uniform color maps for #dataviz, but sometimes at the extremes they're too pale/dark. With ggplot and #rstats, though, you can truncate the palette to avoid the paler colors. I wrote a little guide for how datavizf24.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2024-12...

Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

If you want something more opinionated: fonts that straddle either geometric / humanist or grotesque / humanist tend to be nice in visualizations, since they have a regular, core structure that is not distracting but are not overly cold

My go-to fonts for vis are Avenir or Source Sans Variable

Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"

It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social

🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...

I'd love to include a bunch of examples of what you can use LLMs for in the elmer documentation to inspire #rstats developers? What cool tools have you used or created? (Bonus points if they have public R code I can link to).