Introduction | Challenges | A tiny motivating example: Arbuthnot | What is re-visioning? | Digital history | A taxonomy of re-visions | 1. Software/language ports | Data structures | 2. Design variations | 3. Interactive/web-based | 4. Temporal/animated | 5. Alternative representations | 6. Data packaged for reuse | Challenges already named in HistData | Case study: Minard | A software/language port, built from Minard.cities/Minard.troops/Minard.temp | Wilkinson's GoG specification | A few more, from the gallery | Case study: Perozzo | Re-vision 1: ggplot2 raster + contour | Re-vision 2: a fake-3D isometric shear | Re-vision 3: an interactive plotly surface | Still open | Case study: Snow, via John Russell's 30DayChartChallenge | Open invitations | Going further | References
Package: HistData 1.1.1
HistData: Data Sets from the History of Statistics and Data Visualization
The 'HistData' package provides a collection of small data sets that are interesting and important in the history of statistics and data visualization. The goal of the package is to make these available, both for instructional use and for historical research. Some of these present interesting challenges for graphics or analysis in R.
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manual.pdf |manual.html✨
DESCRIPTION |NEWS
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HistData/json (API)
| # Install 'HistData' in R: |
| install.packages('HistData', repos = c('https://friendly.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org')) |
Bug tracker:https://github.com/friendly/histdata/issues
Pkgdown/docs site:https://friendly.github.io
Datasets:
- Arbuthnot - Arbuthnot's Data on Male and Female Birth Ratios
- Armada - La Felicisima Armada
- Bowley - Bowley's data on values of British and Irish trade, 1855-1899
- Breslau - Halley's Breslau Life Table
- Cavendish - Cavendish's Determinations of the Density of the Earth
- ChestSizes - Chest measurements of Scottish Militiamen
- ChestStigler - Chest measurements of Scottish Militiamen
- Cholera - William Farr's Data on Cholera in London, 1849
- CholeraDeaths1849 - Daily Deaths from Cholera and Diarrhaea in England, 1849
- CushnyPeebles - Cushny-Peebles Data: Soporific Effects of Scopolamine Derivatives
- CushnyPeeblesN - Cushny-Peebles Data: Soporific Effects of Scopolamine Derivatives
- Dactyl - Edgeworth's counts of dactyls in Virgil's Aeneid
- DrinksWages - Elderton and Pearson's (1910) data on drinking and wages
- Ebbinghaus - Ebbinghaus' Forgetting Curve and Three Replications
- EdgeworthDeaths - Edgeworth's Data on Death Rates in British Counties
- Federalist_corpus - The Federalist Papers: corpus metadata, marker-word counts, and text
- Federalist_markers - The Federalist Papers: corpus metadata, marker-word counts, and text
- Federalist_text - The Federalist Papers: corpus metadata, marker-word counts, and text
- Fingerprints - Waite's data on Patterns in Fingerprints
- Galton - Galton's data on the heights of parents and their children
- GaltonFamilies - Galton's data on the heights of parents and their children, by child
- Guerry - Data from A.-M. Guerry, "Essay on the Moral Statistics of France"
- HalleyLifeTable - Halley's Life Table
- Handwashing.clinics - Semmelweis' Data on Handwashing and Deaths from Childbed Fever
- Handwashing.hospital - Semmelweis' Data on Handwashing and Deaths from Childbed Fever
- Handwashing.monthly - Semmelweis' Data on Handwashing and Deaths from Childbed Fever
- Jevons - W. Stanley Jevons' data on Numerical Discrimination
- Langren.all - Van Langren's Data on Longitude Distance between Toledo and Rome
- Langren1644 - Van Langren's Data on Longitude Distance between Toledo and Rome
- Macdonell - Macdonell's Data on Height and Finger Length of Criminals, used by Gosset
- MacdonellDF - Macdonell's Data on Height and Finger Length of Criminals, used by Gosset
- Mayer - Mayer's Data on the Libration of the Moon.
- Michelson - Michelson's Determinations of the Velocity of Light
- MichelsonSets - Michelson's Determinations of the Velocity of Light
- Minard.cities - Data from Minard's famous graphic map of Napoleon's march on Moscow
- Minard.temp - Data from Minard's famous graphic map of Napoleon's march on Moscow
- Minard.troops - Data from Minard's famous graphic map of Napoleon's march on Moscow
- Nightingale - Florence Nightingale's data on deaths in the Crimean War
- OldMaps - Latitudes and Longitudes of 39 Points in 11 Old Maps
- PearsonLee - Pearson and Lee's data on the Heights of Parents and Children by Gender
- Perozzo - Perozzo's Swedish Population Survivorship Data
- Playfair1824 - Playfair's Linear Chronology
- PolioTrials - Polio Field Trials Data
- Pollen - Pollen Data Challenge
- Prostitutes - Parent-Duchatelet's time-series data on the number of prostitutes in Paris
- Pyx - Trial of the Pyx
- Quarrels - Statistics of Deadly Quarrels
- Saturn - Laplace's Saturn data.
- Snow.dates - John Snow's Map and Data on the 1854 London Cholera Outbreak
- Snow.deaths - John Snow's Map and Data on the 1854 London Cholera Outbreak
- Snow.deaths2 - John Snow's Map and Data on the 1854 London Cholera Outbreak
- Snow.polygons - John Snow's Map and Data on the 1854 London Cholera Outbreak
- Snow.pumps - John Snow's Map and Data on the 1854 London Cholera Outbreak
- Snow.streets - John Snow's Map and Data on the 1854 London Cholera Outbreak
- Virginis - John F. W. Herschel's Data on the Orbit of the Twin Stars gamma _Virginis_
- Virginis.interp - John F. W. Herschel's Data on the Orbit of the Twin Stars gamma _Virginis_
- Wheat - Playfair's Data on Wages and the Price of Wheat
- Wheat.monarchs - Playfair's Data on Wages and the Price of Wheat
- Yeast - Student's (1906) Yeast Cell Counts
- YeastD.mat - Student's (1906) Yeast Cell Counts
- ZeaMays - Darwin's Heights of Cross- and Self-fertilized Zea May Pairs
Last updated from:b3cf9c274d. Checks:9 OK. Indexed: yes.
| Target | Result | Time | Files | Syslog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| linux-devel | OK | 153 | ||
| source / vignettes | OK | 436 | ||
| linux-release | OK | 142 | ||
| macos-release | OK | 114 | ||
| macos-oldrel | OK | 97 | ||
| windows-devel | OK | 109 | ||
| windows-release | OK | 151 | ||
| windows-oldrel | OK | 89 | ||
| wasm-release | OK | 118 |
Exports:SdeathsSdensitySnowMapSplotSpolygonsSpumpsSscaleSstreets
Dependencies:
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