This is an ever-growing list of talks I’ve given about gganimate in reverse chronological order:
Title: gganimate Live Cookbook
Abstract: Animation of data visualisation is becoming increasingly popular both as an attention grabber on social media and as a way to tell small data stories. gganimate is a package that extends ggplot2 for making animations and provides a grammar of animation on top of the grammar of graphics. This talk will quickly introduce gganimate, and then dive into a series of different animation and show how they were made and how they could be changed or expanded.
Slides: https://data-imaginist.com/slides/rstudioconf2019/
Video: https://resources.rstudio.com/rstudio-conf-2019/gganimate-live-cookbook
Title: The Grammar of Animation
Abstract: In the world of data visualisation much work has been put into defining a grammar for both static and interactive graphics. These efforts has often been coupled to the development of visualisation frameworks where the grammar has been reflected in the API design. Less attention has been devoted to a grammar of animation, and subsequently animation frameworks has often missed the breadth and composability that are the hallmark of grammar-driven visualisation frameworks. In this talk I will justify and present a grammar of animation and position it in relation to graphics and interactivity grammar, thus creating a clear division of responsibility between the three domains. I will present an R implementation of the grammar of animation which builds on top of the ggplot2 framework and made available as the gganimate package, Using examples with gganimate I’ll show how the proposed grammar can be used to break down, and reason about, animated data visualisation, and how the grammar succinctly can describe very diverse animation operations.
Slides: https://data-imaginist.com/slides/user2018/
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