🖼 Infographics with the grid 📦 . workshop/experiment 🔬

[adam-gruer]

It might be fun to experiment on creating a infographic with the grid 📦 and then produce some blog posts sharing how it can be done in R (along with learnings and further questions) without using a post processing tool like illustrator or inkscape.

Among many thing ggplot2 is an interface to the grid 📦 for creating visualisations. Recently I was working though some of the grid documentation examples to improve my knowledge of this super important low level package. It's pretty fun - and powerful . Like many powerful things the trade off between the complete control it gives you is you have to do nearly everything yourself, which is why the ggplot2 (and the lattice 📦 ) abstraction is such a great extension of grid.

Anyway , inspired by this great example 👍 I started to play around with recreating one of Steph De Silva's great infographics 🥇 in this repo 📁 and the underdeveloped 🥝 of my labour here 🖼

[Lingtax]

Oh, heck yes!

I know a few people that want to develop some ggplot2 style graph outputs for Wolfgang Viechtbauer's metafor 📦 , from my experience this presents some challenges that might be resolved with some better mastery of grid. Super keen to see this and play along if I can.

[adam-gruer]

before I forget: I thought one useful and meta demo might be to create an infographic of ozunconf2018 itself, while it's happening. If this is too difficult/frought, it would be a nice post conference project to collaborate on.

[adam-gruer]

ℹ️ I improved my grid knowledge a lot by working through this great tutorial 👨‍🏫 from Paul Murrell, the author of grid and (in my opinion as a relative newcomeR ) unsung heRo. He has a tonne of other great resources on his site 🌏