viridis
Colorblind-Friendly Color Maps for R (by sjmgarnier)
scico
Palettes for R based on the Scientific Colour-Maps (by thomasp85)
| viridis | scico | |
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| 3 | 1 | |
| 280 | 402 | |
| - | - | |
| 5.3 | 5.2 | |
| 3 months ago | 5 months ago | |
| R | R | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
viridis
Posts with mentions or reviews of viridis.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-15.
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Scientific Colour Maps
I tend to think the continuous color palettes don't look very nice (no matter what the colors are) in various data visualizations. So I often prefer the color brewer discrete smaller sets, https://colorbrewer2.org/#type=sequential&scheme=BuGn&n=3
I use the viridis inferno on occasion as well, https://github.com/sjmgarnier/viridis, although sometimes it is too dark.
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Map: Zillow Home Prices Feb 2022, with year-over-year price growth (TN and US)
I do! That's why I used the Viridis color package for R, because it's explicitly optimized for colorblind people.
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The average area in England now has 19 cases per 100k people - look at how frosty the BBC case map is looking!
They use the viridis colour scheme. This is a widely used colour scheme for heatmaps, that has been purposely designed to be as accessible and useable as possible. Colour blindness, printing in black and white, etc.
scico
Posts with mentions or reviews of scico.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-15.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing viridis and scico you can also consider the following projects:
r4ds - R for data science: a book
ggpomological - 🍑 Pomological plot theme for ggplot2
awesome-R - A curated list of awesome R packages, frameworks and software.
dplyr - dplyr: A grammar of data manipulation
ggplot2 - An implementation of the Grammar of Graphics in R
rmarkdown - Dynamic Documents for R