States to Shapes

I started working on this visualation after coming across Mike Bostock’s shape tweening bl.ock , which was done for one state. The source for this data is Insurance Institute for Highway Service(IIHS). The size of the square is based on the motor vehicle deaths per 100,000 people(2015). ...

May 10, 2017 · 3 min · 575 words · Senthil Thyagarajan

Breweries or Wineries ??

When you think about Texas, the first thing that would come in mind is barbecue which of course pairs well with a good beer. In this post I have mapped each state in the US ranked based on the breweries or wineries present. I got the data from the Brewers Association and the American Winery Guide. With data visualization being so important in representing the dataset I have used hexbins shapefile from Don Meltz’s repo. ...

April 29, 2017 · 1 min · 86 words · Senthil Thyagarajan

Maps and gifs

As I have been using R for a while, one of the things I wanted to do was a time series map. Most of the time series maps I see have sliders to change the years. While looking at how to make time series maps I happened to lear how to make a GIF with a set of images. So I thought, how about making an election based map over the past elections....

March 20, 2017 · 4 min · 655 words · Senthil Thyagarajan

Top Beers in 2016.

After completing my previous post on food I wanted to work on something which I have started to explore recently,craft beer. A friend of mine introduced me to a beer club membership prior to which I never knew anything beyond the Corona’s . Then began the collection and here it is, what have so far. ...

February 22, 2017 · 3 min · 560 words · Senthil Thyagarajan

Where do people eat in Austin ??

Recently I visited Austin and many of my friends had mentioned about the variety in food options here. So my wife and I decided to search for places to eat on the foursquare app. As a standard search filter with high rating we ended up at pretty good places and foursquare did alert us to checkins whenever we reached a place. Post the trip I wanted to see how many people do checkins using this app and how the checkins are correlated with the ratings. ...

February 15, 2017 · 4 min · 732 words · Senthil Thyagarajan