In this era of big data and sophisticated analytics those tortured souls whose job it is to explain and inform have a big problem: How to to make understandable and actionable what the data reveals.

The table below shows my favorite go-to R packages for data import, wrangling, visualization and analysis — plus a few miscellaneous tasks tossed in. The package names in the table are clickable if ...

Posit’s ggbot2 is a voice assistant for ggplot2. Tell it what you want in a spoken conversation, and it will generate plots and ggplot2 R code from your data. Typing questions into a chatbot is nice, ...

Data visualization may not deliver revelation on demand, but diligent visual exploration can unlock insights that might otherwise remain hidden Data visualization is one of the hottest areas of big ...