Visualize Patterns With Calendars & ggplot2 | Step-By-Step Tutorial

[@rappa753]

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[@muhammedhadedy4570]

Wow, amazing as usual. Greetings from Egypt. Wish you all the best. ❤❤❤❤

[@rappa753]

Thank you ☺

[@cleandata_sk]

nice video, i never though about this way of visualization of time series, very interesting!

[@WilForDataScience]

As always, excellent video. Really intuitive and easy to follow. Thank you for this content Albert 👏

[@rappa753]

Thank you. That's such a kind feedback 🤗

[@haraldurkarlsson1147]

What do we do when there is no flight on a given day? I have some data were there is no data some days - perhpas because it was not recored. But still - is there a way ato add those. Finally, is there not some plot specifically for plotting count data on top of a calendar?

[@rappa753]

You can use the complete() function from the tidyr package for getting the full range of dates into your counts (just replace the default NA with a 0 in that case)

[@djangoworldwide7925]

Im considering a transition to gnu-linix, specifically ubunto (lts version). Any chance to see a post/video on things to consider when using R on ubuntu? Im a windows user atm.

[@rappa753]

That's a neat idea. I will add it to my backlog of ideas 🤗 but it will probably take quite a while until I get to that topic.

[@djangoworldwide7925]

hey you switched from blue to green! when did that happen

[@rappa753]

Around 8:30 😊

[@haraldurkarlsson1147]

Very interesting but when the code gets this long errors are prone to creep in. Why not chop it up and simply add pieces?

[@rappa753]

I've done that in the past but I've made the experience that shopping up a long ggplot code like this doesn't really help me and adds more overhead. But I guess it's a matter of preferred style

[@haraldurkarlsson1147]

Albert, I cannot recreate your plots. The calendar dates are all mixed up. I did find an alternative that is good enough for EDA. The output is not as nice as yours - that is hard to match. In the openair package (it is a package for air pollution studies) there is a function called calendarPlot(). That can used to create quick-and-dirty plots. It basically allows you to see if there is anything to look at before diving into a much more involved heatmap such as yours.

[@rappa753]

Ah that's a neat package. Didn't know about that yet 👍🏻 definitely a good idea to do something quick and simple before going down the road of a tailored chart

[@rappa753]

As for the dates being mixed up, can you share specifics or code? It's hard to debug without knowing more

[@Follis_lecture_channel]

@@rappa753 I had to change the date format to POSIX to get the correct week of the month