How To Build Labeled Scatter Plots and Bubble Charts in R | Step-by-Step Guide
This post explores how the R package for labeled scatterplots tries to solve the problem of scatterplots and bubble plots or bubble charts in R. The rhtmlLabeledScatter R package on GitHub that attempts to solve three challenges with labeled scatter plots or bubble charts in R: readability with large numbers of labels and bubbles, and the use […]
Customization of Bubble Charts for Correspondence Analysis in Displayr
When you insert a bubble chart in Displayr (Insert > Visualization > Bubbleplot), you can customize some aspects of its appearance from the controls that appear in the object inspector on the right of the screen. More advanced customizations can be performed by instead inserting an R Output (Insert > R Output), and writing code. I illustrate this by explaining how I created the […]
What is a Bubble Chart?
In the bubble chart below, each bubble represents a country, its area is proportional to its population size, the color indicates the continent, and the horizontal and vertical positions relate to GDP per capita and life expectancy, respectively. Required data A bubble chart requires at least three variables (columns) of data: one showing the […]