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Cédric Scherer

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🧙‍♂️✨📊 Independent Data Visualization Designer, Consultant & Instructor | available for projects and workshops All things data & design with #rstats, #ggplot2, #Figma, #DataWrapper, #Flourish, and more Co-Founder of the #30DayChartChallenge

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Cédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · May 12

Excited to launch "ggplot2 [un]charted" with @yan-holtz.bsky.social! 🎉

An online course to master #ggplot2 with exercises, quizzes, and modules—and hands-on code running in your browser!

Still WIP—sign up now for a limited discount:
👉 www.ggplot2-uncharted.com

#rstats #DataViz #DataVisualization

The landing page of the course "ggplot2 uncharted" with the title teasing it with "Master Data Visualizations with ggplot2".

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Cédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · 13d

The inconsistency of spaces is bothering me much more 😅

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Jonathan Kitt @jonathankitt.bsky.social · Aug 28

Great video with @tanyashapiro.bsky.social and @cedricscherer.com walking us though using {ggiraph}. Plus, there's a plot with some #DrWho data :-)
#data #Rstats #code
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnDj...

Plot Twist: Adding Interactivity to the Elegance of ggplot2 with ggiraph

YouTube video by useR! Conference

www.youtube.com

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Cédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · Aug 18

While they look great, be careful — several palettes are not colorblind-friendly or lack perceptual uniformity.

Cédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · Aug 18

Chart crimes are everywhere. I ate it.

A screenshot from the outro of a episode of "Welcome to Gravity Falls" with a swine pointing to a (badly designed) pie chart and the meme text "dis pie chart - i ated it"

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · Aug 17

I have a slide about an unusual data request I once got: can we show that song choruses are appearing earlier due to the economics of streaming (gotta hook people in early to get paid)? I joked that it's not as if anyone's got a database of song structures. But it turns out that someone has...

An example of unusual data gathering - Compromise!

To listen to the weekly Top 40 from the past 20 years would take 96 days and nights
Just the No.1 singles would take 17 hours
Listening until the first chorus should only take 5 hours
So we listened… and got our chart

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Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · Aug 2

❗️Our next workshop will be on August 14, 6 pm CEST, on marginaleffects package by
@vincentab.bsky.social !
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

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Cédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · Aug 2

Codes and more: z3tt.github.io/ggiraph-user...
Slides: z3tt.github.io/ggiraph-user...

ggiraph-user-2025

Plot Twist: Adding Interactivity to the Elegance of ggplot2 with ggiraph

z3tt.github.io

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Cédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · Aug 2

Now also linked in the repository, together with a gallery image showcasing the featured examples and direct links to the codes.

Cédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · Aug 2

Yes, they are!
z3tt.github.io/ggiraph-user...

Plot Twist

z3tt.github.io

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Cédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · Aug 2

Slides are available, too - see my other comment :)

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Bearmathik @bearmathik.bsky.social · Jul 8

Did you know, that brown bears can make entire countries happier?

For statistical evidence of that fact, see the animation below
#rstats #ggplot #statistics #correlation #causation #Rprogramming #TidyTuesday #DataViz #RStudio

(this is of course meant to be humoristic)
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Cédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · Aug 1

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Cédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · Aug 1

Thanks Sharon! (and the GitHub is now public, too)

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · Aug 1

New presentation just posted at today's @user-conf.bsky.social virtual conference: Plot Twist: Adding Interactivity to the Elegance of ggplot2 with ggiraph

By @tanyashapiro.bsky.social & @cedricscherer.com

Video www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnDj...

#RStats #DataViz #ggplot2 #user2025

Plot Twist: Adding Interactivity to the Elegance of ggplot2 with ggiraph

YouTube video by useR! Conference

www.youtube.com

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Cédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · Aug 1

Already available on YouTube!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnDj...

Plot Twist: Adding Interactivity to the Elegance of ggplot2 with ggiraph

YouTube video by useR! Conference

www.youtube.com

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Cédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · Aug 1

The virtual #user2025 event takes place today — and our talk "Plot Twist: Adding Interactivity to the Elegance of ggplot2 with ggiraph" airs is lined up next! 🎥

#rstats #ggiraph #ggplot2 #dataviz

Title slide for our talk at useR entitled "Plot Tiwst:Adding interactivity to the elegance of ggplot2 with ggiraph"

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Cédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · Jul 25

Urgh...*searching for soemthing else.

In any case the data is hard to spot in most all of these - and some lines are not straight (but most).

Cédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · Jul 25

I don't know what the purpose is as I haven't read the report (was searciigj for something else). I guess "show the results" and ss there are multiple graphs like this (with the same y axes), comparison *might* be more important for each of the panel across figures. Or it's more about "trends".

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Cédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · Jul 25

a cartoon monkey says no look harder while pointing

ALT: a cartoon monkey says no look harder while pointing

media.tenor.com

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · Jul 25

Today's front page is a nod towards the US president's upcoming visit to Scotland 👀👇

The National's front page as Donald Trump set to arrive in Scotland

www.thenational.scot

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Cédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · Jul 25

Find the data 🧐🤓
#dataviz #datatoinkratio

One of many line graphs in the NASA Mariner-Venus Report from 1962. Due to the rather black and bold and many grid lines, the straight lines that show the results (which are also black) are almost invisible.

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Cédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · Jul 25

Thank you Michael 👐

Cédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · Jul 23

And here is a gist with the code for that basic version as not all of it is visible in the screenshot:

gist.github.com/z3tt/8723e62...

A basic gauge chart made with ggplot2 + coord_radial()

A basic gauge chart made with ggplot2 + coord_radial() - basic-gauge-ggplot.R

gist.github.com

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Cédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · Jul 23

The version in our online "ggplot2 [un]charted" workshop to illustrate how to create partial radial plots with #ggplot2 — part of the lesson "Coordinate Systems: Setting the Stage for Your Plot"

www.ggplot2-uncharted.com/module1/coor...

Screenshot of the gauge chart, along with the code in our interactive in-browser sandbox in the coordinate lesson of our course "ggplot2 uncharted".

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Cédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · Jul 23

Last week, I crafted my first-ever gauge chart 🏎️ to showcase partial radial plots for our #ggplot2 [un]charted lesson on "coordinate systems"

Thanks to coord_radial(), partial circles like those are super easy now — and of course I couldn’t resist making a polished and animated version 💅📽️ #rstats

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