Data Imaginist

Sep 14
Announcing lime - Explaining the predictions of black-box models
Have you been looking at the Python world with jealousy over their ability to explain machine learning predictions? Look no more! lime is now available for R
Aug 22
Introducing routr - Routing of HTTP and WebSocket in R
I'm happy to finally be able to announce that routr is on CRAN, thus completing the standard fiery stack trifecta
Aug 18
I made a 3D movie with ggplot2 once - here's how I did it
A showcase of facet_stereo() in ggforce. A largely useless, but fun, feature
Aug 16
When A Fire Starts to Burn - Fiery 1.0 released
The R webserver framework fiery has just been updated to v1.0
Aug 13
Introducing reqres
A modern R interface to HTTP messages
Jul 24
Beneath the canvas
On performance, mechanics, and coding in ggplot2
Jul 12
Reigniting the fire: A roadmap for fiery
The fiery package has laid relatively dormant since its introduction a year ago, despite my best attempts to carve out time for it. This ends now!
Jul 07
Introducing tidygraph
Towards a tidy API for relational data
May 02
Taking control of animations in R and demystifying them in the process
Some time ago I created the logo for www.data-imaginist.com and and promised to show you how it could be animated. The time for that has come...
Feb 23
Announcing ggraph: A grammar of graphics for relational data
ggraph, a package for creating network and tree visualizations using the ggplot2 API has just been released on CRAN
Feb 16
Introduction to ggraph: Edges
In the third post in this series of ggraph introductions I will dive into how to connect nodes using edges
Feb 10
Introduction to ggraph: Nodes
In the second post in this series of ggraph introductions I will dive into how nodes are drawn
Feb 06
Introduction to ggraph: Layouts
In the first post in a series of ggraph introductions I will talk about how ggraph specifies and uses layouts
Dec 21
Data Driven Christmas Card Animation with Voronoi Tiles
In this post I'm going to show you how to make a Christmas card that will bring joy to even the geekiest of data scientists
Nov 22
Announcing ggforce: Accelerating ggplot2
ggforce is a collection of extensions to the ggplot2 plotting system intended to add missing pieces, boost functionality, and break the boundaries of what's possible.
Oct 31
Becoming The Intern
The story of how I landed the most prestigious internship within the world of R visualization frameworks.
Oct 20
Creating a Bees and Bombs gif in R
If you don't know Bees and Bombs go look him up immediatly. In this post I'll recreate one of his recent masterpieces in R and hopefully talk a bit about problem decomposition in the process
Oct 07
Data Driven Logo Design with ggraph and gtable
I recently created the logo for www.data-imaginist.com and in this post I will describe how I did it and what went through my head in the process
Sep 29
Announcing curry: Operator based currying and partial application
curry is a new package just released on CRAN, that allows you to perform currying and partial application of functions using a range of operators.
Sep 18
Welcome to Data Imaginist!
This is the opening post of my site, where I denounce any attempt at perfection.

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Visualization, Data Science, and Biology

Have you been looking at the Python world with jealousy over their ability to explain machine learning predictions? Look no more! lime is now available for R

I'm happy to finally be able to announce that routr is on CRAN, thus completing the standard fiery stack trifecta

A showcase of facet_stereo() in ggforce. A largely useless, but fun, feature

The R webserver framework fiery has just been updated to v1.0

A modern R interface to HTTP messages

On performance, mechanics, and coding in ggplot2

The fiery package has laid relatively dormant since its introduction a year ago, despite my best attempts to carve out time for it. This ends now!

Towards a tidy API for relational data

Some time ago I created the logo for www.data-imaginist.com and and promised to show you how it could be animated. The time for that has come...

ggraph, a package for creating network and tree visualizations using the ggplot2 API has just been released on CRAN

In the third post in this series of ggraph introductions I will dive into how to connect nodes using edges

In the second post in this series of ggraph introductions I will dive into how nodes are drawn

In the first post in a series of ggraph introductions I will talk about how ggraph specifies and uses layouts

In this post I'm going to show you how to make a Christmas card that will bring joy to even the geekiest of data scientists

ggforce is a collection of extensions to the ggplot2 plotting system intended to add missing pieces, boost functionality, and break the boundaries of what's possible.

The story of how I landed the most prestigious internship within the world of R visualization frameworks.

If you don't know Bees and Bombs go look him up immediatly. In this post I'll recreate one of his recent masterpieces in R and hopefully talk a bit about problem decomposition in the process

I recently created the logo for www.data-imaginist.com and in this post I will describe how I did it and what went through my head in the process

curry is a new package just released on CRAN, that allows you to perform currying and partial application of functions using a range of operators.

This is the opening post of my site, where I denounce any attempt at perfection.