Chart golf: the “ demographic tsunami ”

In conclusion then: Years as coloured bars: not great Excel: no “Tsunami”: hardly Bonus section: population pyramids I’ve always liked population pyramids, ever since I first learned about them in high school geography class. Here’s my attempt to animate one. The trick is to subset the data by gender, then create two geoms and set the values for one subset to be negative (but not the labels). More commonly, ages are binned and proportions rather than counts may be used, but I did neither in this case. I find it either mesmerising or a bit “too much”, depending on my mood. How about you? Filed under: R, statistics Tagged: news, smh, sydney, visualisation
Source: What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate - Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Tags: R statistics news smh sydney visualisation Source Type: blogs