https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/recreation/ Recent content in Recreation on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/05/10/spear-ggplot2/ Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/05/10/spear-ggplot2/ They’re the same picture. Nearly. tl;dr Two years ago I won a data-viz recreation competition run by the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) using base R’s plotting. I wrote a short {ggplot2} how-to for RSS’s ‘Significance’ magazine that was never published1, so here it is now. Recreate This short code walkthrough will get you started on recreating Mary Eleanor Spear’s cotton plot (1952), as used in the Royal Statistical Society’s #CottonViz challenge. https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/07/05/recreate-lewitt/ Mon, 05 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/07/05/recreate-lewitt/ LeWitt ReMix The third #RecreationThursday challenge involved Sol LeWitt’s Colour Bands (2000), which you can see on this prints catalogue. In short, each piece is square and contains patterns of colourful concentric lines that are arranged into panels of varying shapes with black borders. Rather than recreate his artworks exactly, I decided to riff on the approach with a (very basic) Shiny app, which adds different types of lines and some randomisation. https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/06/21/recreate-hlito/ Mon, 21 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/06/21/recreate-hlito/ Rando-Hlito The first #RecreationThursday challenge involved Alfredo Hlito’s Curves and Straight Series (1948), held by New York’s MoMA. My recreation uses only base R functions: My remix is a 10 by 10 grid where the elemental geometry is randomised: I also made a gif remix that’s composed of 10 ‘rando-Hlitos’: Approach You can find all the commented code and the outputs in my matt-dray/viz-recreation GitHub repo. https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/06/08/recreate-spear/ Tue, 08 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/06/08/recreate-spear/ #CottonViz The Young Statistician’s and History of Stats sections of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) have challenged people to recreate1 or remix Mary Eleanor Spear’s visualisation of cotton supplies in the United States in the 1940s:2 I thought it would be interesting to recreate it using only R’s built-in base graphics. This might be a nice demo of zero-dependency plotting for R users who are more familiar with {ggplot2}.