Rita Giordano
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Rita Giordano
@ritagiordano.bsky.social
Independent data visualisation designer and scientific illustrator, LinkedIn instructor. Portfolio: ritagiordano.co.uk
New Year, new learning. I finally took the time to learn closeread! Here my first scrollytelling talking about chronic pain using illustrations, R and Quarto. #dataviz #ggplot2 #rstats #scrollytelling. rigior.quarto.pub/the-invisibl...
January 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Are you curious to know how to create a donut chart with
#ggplot2 in R #rstat?
Below few steps I used to create a donut chart in R.

To change the default colours, I used this time {MetBrewer} lnkd.in/dp7MzAKa, selecting a colour-blind friendly palette.

#dataviz #accessibility
December 17, 2024 at 3:05 PM
It is 7 months that I don't post here. I focused on learning about entrepreneurship in these months. Now it's time to come back to the #Rstat #dataviz projects again, and what better time to start with the #30DaysMapChallenge? Here I incorporated day 5 a journey, and day 15 my data. A map of my CV.
November 20, 2024 at 10:01 AM
Here, I show the data from the greenhouse gas emission from fuel. I aim to show the reader which countries did not reduce their emissions after the 2015 year of the Paris Agreement. I coloured in orange the countries that are the focus for my readers. #rstats #ggplot2 📊 #dataviz
March 27, 2024 at 10:26 AM
It is still British Science Week. I talked to some kids in year 4 about how the synchrotron works. I talked about chocolates, dinosaur eggs and many other applications. We had fun creating a kaleidoscope. 🧪It was a pleasure to speak about my experience working at ESRF and SLS.
March 15, 2024 at 1:30 PM
{viridis} is an R package with colour-blind friendly palettes. It improves the graph readability. The advantage is that the palettes are perceptually uniform, easy to print in greyscale. To use the {viridis} palettes in ggplot2 add:
📊 scale_colour_d()
#rstats #accessibility #ggplot2 #dataviz
March 11, 2024 at 2:28 PM
How to choose a colour-blind friendly colour palette in R? One option is the package {RColorBrewer}, which helps you find the right colour for your audience. Using ‘colorblindFriendly = TRUE’ inside the function 'display.brewer.all', you can visualise all the colour-blind friendly palettes. 📊
March 6, 2024 at 12:19 PM
Day 2 of @higsch.com Svelte + D3 tutorial. I tried several times to learn Svelte, but these tutorials are outstanding! Below, a GIF of my animated circles.
February 16, 2024 at 11:19 AM
Reposted by Rita Giordano
In collaboration with @datavizsociety.bsky.social, I started a spreadsheet of data visualization style guides. If you know of any that aren't on the list (docs.google.com/spreadsheets...) already, please add them and fill out this quick form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com
February 15, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Thanks to all the useful resources and people to follow, yesterday I created my first circles in Svelte + D3. I used the tutorial from @higsch.com on YouTube. I amused myself by also adding a title and a footnote. Also, I changed the colours using a colour-blind friendly palette from {RColorBrewer}.
February 15, 2024 at 7:16 AM
I'm so pleased to announce that for the next meetup of R-Ladies Cambridge #dataviz lunch, I will host @fgazzelloni.bsky.social. She will talk about the Du Bois challenge. Here is the link to the meetup: www.meetup.com/rladies-camb...
Dataviz lunch: Replicating Du Bois with R, Mon, Mar 4, 2024, 12:00 PM | Meetup
**In light of the ongoing #DuboisChallenge2024, we'll demonstrate how to replicate one of the original plates from W.E.B. Du Bois's legacy at the 1900 Paris Exposition usin
www.meetup.com
February 14, 2024 at 7:37 AM
Reposted by Rita Giordano
I am on the lookout for potential assignments/clients: if anyone knows of possibilities or can introduce me somewhere that would be super.
My expertise: static artful datavisualization (but I also like to create basic graphs), preferably on a social or scientific subject. 📊
February 13, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Time to introduce myself, after being here for a while. I'm a data visualisation designer and a scientific illustrator. I work mainly in R to make data visualisations. I want to strengthen my skills in D3 with Svelte to create interactive data viz, any ideas or person to follow to learn about it?
February 8, 2024 at 1:38 PM