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Rosling's bubble chart, with one word added.

In gog time is a channel, so play(year) sits beside color() and size(). The same word moves a bar chart, a histogram and a cube.

Be agog. Use gog.

#rstats #DataViz
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One word makes the plot move – psychometrician
Hans Rosling’s bubble chart is a scatterplot with one word added. In gog, time is a channel, written beside color and size, so animation is not a second package with a second vocabulary. The same word...
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August 25, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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Less than a month away from teaching one of my favorite things with one of my favorite people at one of my favorite conferences. Hope you'll join @cwick.co.nz and me at the "Practical Quarto" workshop at posit.co/conference! #quarto #rstats #python #opensource
August 17, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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If you're going to invest in your skills this fall, spend a day working through a real problem with the person who wrote the package. Seven workshops at posit::conf(2026), September 14 in Houston. posit.co/conference #RStats #Python
August 12, 2026 at 7:18 PM
One sentence, four languages, one picture.

R: data(gapminder_2007) + point + x(gdp) + y(life)
Python: x(col.gdp)
Julia: x(:gdp)

Same specification, one Rust engine, byte-identical SVG.
Not similar. Identical.

psychometrician.github.io/posts/one-en...

#rstats
One engine, four languages, one picture – psychometrician
One plotting syntax for R, Python, Julia and JavaScript, drawn by one engine, so every one of them returns the identical picture. Every plot in gog’s book is drawn in all four and compared on every ch...
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August 5, 2026 at 5:45 AM
Same tap, two tanks. Shallow water slows the wave, so crests bunch up.

data(ripples) + surface + x(across) + y(along) + z(height) +
color(height) + palette("plasma") + play(instant, speed = 4) |
facet(tank)

Be agog. Use gog.
psychometrician.github.io/gog-book/ #rstats #dataviz #gog
August 4, 2026 at 4:30 AM
gog is a grammar of graphics: one Rust engine, four bindings — R, Python, Julia, JavaScript.
Draft manual (v0.0.2) is live:
psychometrician.github.io/gog-book/
Source: github.com/psychometric...
Be agog. Use gog.
#rstats #JuliaLang
GOG: A Grammar of Graphics
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August 3, 2026 at 7:51 PM