I want to create a timeline to show all the results of one of my studies. I just want to display a timeline, event by group, and line charts of some data I obtained.
I've tried doing it in illustrator/photoshop but it's just time consuming and not what I aiming for.
Here is the thing I've tried in illustrator, just to show you the type of diagram I'm aiming for:
So the figure I want to be able to do have this structure:
Timeline
Timeline events grouped by type
Line charts of my data
and so on...
Have you some suggestion to do it in R? Maybe a package? Or another tool?
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I've created a time series plot in R using the ggplot package, but I wanted to see if I could further customize it by creating target zones. I originally started with an Excel plot that allows me to move a gray box to different areas of the plot as an easier way to point out a range of temperatures. However, I wanted to see if I could replicate this in R. Here's a screenshot of my Excel plot to better explain my goal: Time Series on Excel. On the time series plot, you can see a gray box that you can drag around and change the size of to better define a range of temperatures (in this case, it covers from 15-25C). Is this possible to do on top of my time series plot in R? I'm only starting to code in R so it's been quite hard for me to navigate, and I appreciate any help I could get. Thanks!
I need some help with extracting charts as you would a dataset and though the visualizations appear to be saved in the catalog as assets, I have not been able to find a way to pull the visualization out. I need to do this for at least 100 charts (all with different formatting) and it's looking like the only way I will be able to do this is to pull the dataset for each chart, recreate the chart in R and hopefully export it into excel (if that's even a thing).
I have two values I wish to plot against each other in tableau. They are two totals aggregated around the same date. I can get them to the point where they are plotted on a dual access against the date like so:
but any attempt to plot them against each other for correlation has come to nothing. I've tried simple conversion to scatterplot, using calculated fields, using a cross tab with subtitles and attempting to only plot the subtotals against each other all of which have failed. I could do it in Excel but have to do it in tableau.
I have consulted the official Tableau 9.0 guide, google and existing questions on Stack Overflow all to no avail. If I was doing this in BOXI, I could just select the columns and chart them. How do I do the equivalent visualisation in Tableau?
You aren't clear about what type of chart you want to make.
Do you want a scatter plot? If so, put one measure on the row shelf, the other measure on the column shelf, and one or more dimensions (such as your date) on the detail shelf to define how finely to aggregate the data. Check the aggregation functions you use (SUM, AVG) and the aggregation level for your date fields (YEAR, MONTH ...) as desired. You probably want to use the second block of date aggregations on the menu unless you want to group all January data together regardless of year.
If you want a connected scatter plot, set the mark type from automatic to line and move the date field from the detail to the path shelf. You might also then want to put the date on size, color or legend to visually show the direction of time on the line. You might need to change that field to attribute in some cases to avoid creating multiple lines.
Tableau is fantastic once you learn how it works, and get a strong understanding of how choices about treating fields as dimensions or measures, or discrete or continuous impacts the behavior. If you skim over those details, you can still make beautiful charts by following recipes, mimicking examples (and asking StackOverflow), but Tableau's behavior will seem mysterious and arbitrary.
If you take some time to learn the fundamentals about how Tableau works, it will repay your time investment. I recommend Joshua Milligan's book Learning Tableau for a good way to start, along with the training videos on the Tableau website.
I am typically using R to do statistical analysis, and rather new to the data visualization capabilities. I'm trying to figure out if there is some way to marry the motion chart package gvisMotionChart with the mapping package, gvisGeoMap. I'd like to display a video of events over time, appearing on a map on their date of occurrence at lat/lon coordinates and then fading out. Anyone know if it's possible to do this? Any additional concerns if I have over 50,000 records (daily over 5 years) that I want to feed in to be displayed?
Please note that I do not have to use the gvis packages--I am just using these to motivate the idea. If there are other dynamic mapping packages available in R that will just draw on a shapefile and my event records, all the better.
Thanks!
I'm trying to use canvas to build a line graph between 2 date points. I need the date measurements along the bottom of the graph to change based on the start and end date data, which can vary widely between what information is grabbed by the application. Are there any plugins that do this, specifically/dynamically?
There is a huge abundance of chart and graph plotting libraries that can do this, and gRaphaël seems to do what you ask for quite well.