Chapter 4. Advanced and Interactive Visualization

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Producing a Sankey diagram with the networkD3 package
  • Creating a dynamic force network with the visNetwork package
  • Building a rotating 3D graph and exporting it as a GIF
  • Using the DiagrammeR package to produce a process flow diagram in RStudio

Introduction

A legendary tale says that Michelangelo found his Moses so real; and shouted at him "Why don’t you speak?!" Seeing that it wouldn’t, he slammed it down with his hammer.

Introduction

Michelangelo's Mosè. Picture by Jörg Bittner Unna, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46476418

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