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  Pie charts aren't that bad. Controversial statement? Maybe. It's just one of the "rules" of #DataViz we'll be debating in our Royal Statistical Society conference session next month 📊 Featuring Roger Beecham, Peter Broad, @charliejhadley, and Hortense Quazza as panellists! Come and join us on: 📆Thu 10 Sep ⌚14:00 - 15:20 📍Bournemouth, UK If you have questions you'd like to ask the panellists about data visualisation rules but can't m...

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  Experimenting with something a little bit different 🎨 #Art #Watercolor

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  Sunday art 🎨 #RStats #ggplot2 #Rtistry #CreativeCoding #GenArtClub

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  Lesser known benefit of learning #RStats: the ability the make your own colouring book 🎨 #Rtistry

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  It's time for this week's #TidyTuesday which is looking at country music lyrics 🎶 I decided to explore which colours are mentioned in song lyrics 🎨 with a chart styled as an audio equalizer display 📊 Code: https://github.com/nrennie/tidytuesday/tree/main/2026/2026-08-25 #DataViz #RStats #ggplot2

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  New Zealand in 60 sketches 🎨 Many of us (myself included) take hundreds of photos and never look at them again. So I wanted to create something slightly different as a reminder of my recent travels! #AoNZ #Art #Travel #Watercolor #TravelJournal

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  This week's #TidyTuesday data is all about castles 🏰 I focused on Scottish castles and created an interactive explorer map! 🗺️ antique styling with compass 💬 tooltips with images to view castles 🔼 different shapes for icons All made entirely in #RStats Code: https://github.com/nrennie/tidytuesday/tree/main/2026/2026-09-01 #ggplot2 #DataViz

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  First pair of crocheted socks ✅ #Crochet

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  If you're at Royal Statistical Society conference this week, come along on Tuesday morning at 9am for #TidyTuesday live! A workshop to help you develop your programming skills, ability to work with data, and be part of a wonderful data community! 📊 #RStats

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  A very quick pictogram for #TidyTuesday this week where we're looking at The Cappuccino Index ☕ Code: https://github.com/nrennie/tidytuesday/tree/main/2026/2026-09-08 #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2

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  Join me on October 1 for a #ggplot2 workshop as part of the R/Pharma conference! 📊 #RStats #DataViz

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  This week's #TidyTuesday data is from the Dead Sea Scrolls digital library 📖 I created an interactive Voronoi diagram showing the number of images of manuscripts found in different locations 📊 Code: https://github.com/nrennie/tidytuesday/tree/main/2026/2026-09-15 #DataViz #ggplot2 #RStats

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  My list of data-related resources had a bit of a re-fresh recently! They're now all in the one site. You can still browse by topic or see them all at once! 📊 Link: https://nrennie.rbind.io/resources/ If there's something missing or broken, feel free to add a PR with more resources: https://github.com/nrennie/resources #RStats #DataViz #StatsEd

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  🇳🇿 #AoNZ #Photography #Birds #kea

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  You can now make chord diagrams in #ggplot2 🎉 Here's a short blog introducing the 'ggchord2' package and showing you how to make chord diagrams 📊 Link: https://nrennie.rbind.io/blog/chord-diagrams-ggchord2/ #DataViz #RStats #RLadies

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  Today's chart is a reminder that there is still some good news in the world 📊 This heatmap shows deaths from cervical cancer have dropped to 0 over a 5 year period in England for women aged 20-24. Deaths are also generally decreasing across all age groups. Made with #RStats and #ggplot2 #DataViz

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  Here's how quickly you can create plots using 'ggauto' in #RStats using this week's #TidyTuesday data as an example 📊 In just one line of code you get a bar chart, arranged from highest to lowest. #DataViz

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  An experimental chart for #TidyTuesday this week on the topic of shipwrecks around Ireland! Putting time on the y axis to create a very long static scrolly chart with lots of annotations 📊 ft. bubble effect for points Code: https://github.com/nrennie/tidytuesday/tree/main/2026/2026-06-30 #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz

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  A little bit of generative art made with #RStats and Datawrapper #CreativeCoding

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  🚨 New blog post! 🚨 Collaborating on Quarto documents can be tricky, especially if you're working with people who don't need to write code 🫂 So I've pulled together some of the options for collaborating on Quarto documents into a blog post! Link: https://nrennie.rbind.io/blog/collaborating-quarto/ #QuartoPub #RStats

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  For #TidyTuesday this week, I decided to create a custom interactive table to explore UFC women's fighters. 🛠️ Data wrangling with #RStats 📊 Table built with JavaScript #DataViz

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  RE: https://fosstodon.org/@nrennie/116753726951927616 The benefit of making things in #RStats and Quarto is that it only takes about 10 minutes to update an entire article when the next year of data is available. You can now explore this personal project about which baby names were popular in 2025 here: https://nrennie.rbind.io/data-stories/baby-names/index.html #DataViz

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  Sneak peek at a new interactive project exploring historic temperature trends across Scotland #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2 #QuartoPub

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  A little bit of generative art to end the week 🎨 Made in #RStats with ggcube, a new package from Matthew Kling for making 3D charts in #ggplot2 #Rtistry #GenerativeArt #GenArtClub

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  Nightlights 🎨 Generative art built with D3 and animated with CSS #GenerativeArt #GenArtClub

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  A few updates to some of my older generative art pieces using the new {mypaintr} #RStats package #Rtistry #GenArtClub #GenerativeArt

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  We're looking at parental leave policies across Europe for #TidyTuesday this week! 📊 Small multiple area chart showing maximum job protected leave for parents 🛠️ Made with Plotnine in #Python Code: https://github.com/nrennie/tidytuesday/tree/main/2026/2026-06-02 #DataViz #Plotnine #PydyTuesday

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  If you love 'ggiraph' for turning your #ggplot2 plots into interactive charts, then I highly recommend checking out 'ninejs' for the #Python equivalent in Plotnine! 📊 It turns static Plotnine/matplotlib charts into interactives with one line. Link to this excellent project from Joseph Barbier : https://y-sunflower.github.io/ninejs/ #RStats #DataViz

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  Randomly generated generative art 🎨 #GenerativeArt #RStats #Rtistry #GenArtClub #CreativeCoding

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  Another new generative art system built in #RStats 🎨 #GenArtClub #GenerativeArt #Rtistry #CreativeCoding