tidytuesday VS gganimate

TidyTuesday is a weekly data cleaning project where a new, interesting data source is linked to each week: https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday

For R, I don't have specific resources, but I remember I started out with doing tidytuesdays challenge (https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday).

Tidy Tuesday has data and links to more data. The nice thing about those data sets is that you can search for what other people did with the data on social media (e.g. Twitter).

Dataset: https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/master/data/2022/2022-11-01

What you're describing is contributing to open source. Some things I'd suggest doing: - learn some git first - create GitHub account and create at least a practice repo - look at learning community-related repos, like Tidy Tuesday - follow R "power" users, people associated with RStudio, and similar folks on social media. Those folks will sometimes mention projects aimed at beginners.

Data: TidyTuesday April 4

The Tidy Tuesday git repo has a lot of example datasets to work with.

I mostly use ggplot2 in R for visualisations which means that The R Graph Gallery is my starting point for inspiration. The best thing to do is start with a simple idea that tells a story, and one of the best guys out there that does this is Cedric Scherer. He is involved a bit with the TidyTuesday project which I wish I had more time to play around with, and is a great starting point for developing a library of vis techniques.

The gganimate package is great for this! https://github.com/thomasp85/gganimate

This was created using R's {gganimate} package. Huge help from this stackoverflow post showing how to interpolate the values between frames to add more flow to the animation. As well, this post about emoji's that provides a `mean_colour` function that made it easier to match bar colours to the coin images.