Plotly Examples

Plotly is one of the many great ways to make interactive visualizations
I plan to add more, but here are a few to get started
Each, as you can see, is just a few lines of code
Nothing too flashy, just examples to see it doesn’t take long to learn
Let’s get started, first we’ll load the packages and data

library(ggplot2)
library(plotly)
datums <- read.csv("~/Jeff/rSpace/Data/crabDatums1950To2016.csv")

Lines

All these lines are pretty busy and hard to follow
Plotly solves that problem:
- Just double click the legend (to the right) to remove them
- Then click the States you want to see
Of course you can hover in the visualization for more info
And more options in the upper right to zoom, pan, download, etc…
Again, nothing flashy, but not bad for 2 lines of code

p1 <- ggplot(datums, aes(x = Year, y = PoundsMillion, color = State))
ggplotly(p1 + geom_line())

Jitter

This Jitter Visualization is only mildly useful without interactivity
With the hover info, it makes a quick way to explore lots of points
For example, we can quickly see Landings in descending order and which year
Assuming you’re interested in that sort of thing (I am)

p2 <- ggplot(datums, aes(x = State, y = PoundsMillion))
ggplotly(p2 + geom_point(aes(color = Year),
                         alpha = 0.5, size = 1.5,
                         position = position_jitter(width  = 0.25,
                                                    height = 0)))

Area

I’m thinking you get the idea

p3 <- ggplot(subset(datums, State %in% c("MD", "LA", "NC","VA")),
             aes(x = Year, y = PoundsMillion, fill = State))
ggplotly(p3 + geom_area())

Another Jitter

Again, you get the idea

p4 <- ggplot(subset(datums,
                    State %in% c("MD", "VA", "NJ", "FL",
                                 "LA", "NC", "SC","TX")),
             aes(x = Region, y = PoundsMillion))
ggplotly(p4 + geom_point(aes(color = State),
                         alpha = 0.5, size = 2,
                         position = position_jitter(width  = 0.25,
                                                    height = 0)))