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R Data Visualization Cookbook

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R Data Visualization Cookbook

Overview of this book

If you are a data journalist, academician, student or freelance designer who wants to learn about data visualization, this book is for you. Basic knowledge of R programming is expected.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Index

Creating animated plots in R


Readers were exposed to the idea of animation in R using the animation packages in the recipe Animating a 3D surface plot in chapter 6, Adding the Third Dimension, but animation in R would seem incomplete without the use of the googleVis package. Animating a visualization brings a new dimension to our visualization. It helps to be a good storyteller, but when the story is accompanied by animation or a plot, it adds force to the story. Many of you would agree that the Web is filled with animated visualizations but there are some that have made a great impact. Here are links to some of the really good visualizations I have come across:

One visualization is shown as follows:

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