Announcing nationalparkscolors - Color palettes inspired by America’s National Parks

Introducing nationalparkscolors, an R package with 20 color palettes inspired by the landscapes, geology, and ecosystems of iconic US National Parks.

Beautiful Chord Diagrams with Flourish

Chord diagrams are one of the most effective ways to show pairwise relationships between entities. This post covers the theory, code-based approaches in R, Python, and JavaScript, and how to build them quickly using Flourish — illustrated with a real example from the Charlotte Regional Data Trust.

Switching from ArcGIS to QGIS (and a bit of R too)

After years of defaulting to ArcGIS, a real project finally pushed me to give QGIS a serious try and I never went back. Here is what changed, what QGIS does better, and how R has quietly taken on a meaningful share of that workload too.

Comparison Slider for figures and images with RICV

Now sliders can be added to make impactful image comparisons