Visualization

Michael Chow, Rich Iannone

Recreating Septa Transit Timetables in Python

Learn to build complex table layouts in Great Tables: vertical text, column spanners, and zebra striping

Mar 12, 2026

ggplot2 styling

This post discusses one function in ggplot2: `theme()`. Find out about the glamour of graphics in this deep-dive article

ggplot2 Visualization Tidyverse Packages

Oct 1, 2025

ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here

tidyverse ggplot2 Visualization Tidyverse Packages

Sep 11, 2025

Great Tables `v0.18.0`: Easy Column Spanners and More!

New in Great Tables v0.18.0: automatic column spanners with tab_spanner_delim(), boolean formatting, and rotated labels

Jul 18, 2025

Jules Walzer-Goldfeld, Michael Chow

Adding Plots to Great Tables

Add sparklines and small charts to your Great Tables using svg.py, HTML, or plotnine

Jul 3, 2025

Screencast showing interactive Great Tables with marimo widgets

Great Tables + marimo = Interactive Tables

Make your Great Tables interactive with marimo's reactive widgets

Rich Iannone, Jerry Wu

Jun 24, 2025

svglite 2.2.0

A new release of svglite has arrived, and with it full support for all the latest capabilities of the R Graphics Engine. Further, it finalizes the new approach to handling web fonts and font embedding in the created SVGs

tidyverse svglite Visualization Graphic-Device Graphics Tidyverse Packages

May 7, 2025

scales 1.4.0

The new 1.4.0 release of the scales package adds some colourful updates. Read about colour manipulation, palettes and new label functions

tidyverse scales Visualization Tidyverse Packages

Apr 23, 2025

Great Tables: Becoming the Polars `.style` Property

How Great Tables became Polars' DataFrame.style—a look at open source collaboration

Apr 16, 2025

How We Used Great Tables to Supercharge Reporting in Pointblank

See how Great Tables powers Pointblank's beautiful, shareable validation reports

Feb 11, 2025

Style Table Body with `mask=` in `loc.body()`

Style table cells conditionally using Polars expressions with loc.body(mask=)

Jerry Wu

Jan 24, 2025

Updates to Text Rendering in R Graphics

There has been a recent flurry of updates to packages involved in rendering text from R. This blog post will go through what this means for you as a user and developer

tidyverse systemfonts marquee Visualization Textshaping Graphics Tidyverse Roundup

Jan 17, 2025

Great Tables `v0.15.0`: Flags, Icons, and Other Formatting Goodies

New in Great Tables v0.15.0: country flag icons with fmt_flag(), Font Awesome icons, and accounting notation

Dec 19, 2024

Contributing to Public Transit Data Analysis and Tooling

Working on transit data? Let's collaborate on open source tools and standards

Dec 19, 2024

Rendering images anywhere in Great Tables

Add images anywhere in your Great Tables with fmt_image() and vals.fmt_image()

Jerry Wu

Dec 13, 2024

Great Tables: Generating LaTeX Output for PDF

Create publication-ready PDF tables by exporting Great Tables to LaTeX

Nov 13, 2024

plotnine Visualization Plotnine Releases

Version 0.14.0

Plotnine v0.14.0: requires Python 3.10+, removes print() for rendering, and improves IDE support for scales

Nov 7, 2024

Rich Iannone, Michael Chow

Great Tables `v0.13.0`: Applying styles to all table locations

Great Tables v0.13.0 brings styling to all table locations via expanded loc.*() methods

Oct 10, 2024

Great Tables `v0.12.0`: Google Fonts and zebra stripes

New in Great Tables v0.12.0: Google Fonts via google_font() and zebra striping with opt_row_striping()

Sep 30, 2024

patchwork 1.3.0

patchwork 1.3.0 has just been released bringing refinements to the `free()` function and full on support for gt tables

tidyverse gt ggplot2 Visualization Patchwork Tidyverse Packages

Sep 13, 2024

plotnine Visualization Plotnine Contest

2024 Plotnine Contest - Last Call

Final call for the 2024 Plotnine Contest—submit your best visualizations by July 26

Jul 22, 2024

Great Tables for Scientific Publishing

Format scientific tables in Great Tables: unit notation, chemical formulas, and scientific notation

Jul 8, 2024

plotnine Visualization Plotnine

Hands typing on a laptop showing a data dashboard on the screen

Seeing Beyond Statistics: Anscombe's Quartet and the Power of Graphs

Why visualizing data matters: recreating Anscombe's Quartet with Plotnine and Polars

Jeroen Janssens

Jul 2, 2024

marquee 0.1.0

The initial release brings markdown awareness to grid and ggplot2 to allow for rich text formatting in R graphics

tidyverse marquee ggplot2 Visualization Tidyverse Packages

May 29, 2024

PyCon 2024: Making Beautiful, Publication Quality Tables is Possible in 2024

Watch our PyCon 2024 talk on building publication-quality tables with Great Tables

May 16, 2024

Great Tables is now BYODF (Bring Your Own DataFrame)

Great Tables v0.5.0 makes Pandas optional—use Polars without pulling in extra dependencies

Apr 24, 2024

Rich Iannone, Michael Chow

The Design Philosophy of Great Tables

Why tables matter: 5,000 years of table design and how Great Tables solves the modern dilemma

Apr 4, 2024

Great Tables `v0.4.0`: Nanoplots and More

New in Great Tables v0.4.0: nanoplots for tiny, interactive visualizations inside table cells

Mar 19, 2024

ggplot2 3.5.0: Introducing: coord_radial()

ggplot2 3.5.0: Introducing: coord_radial()

Introducing a new polar coordinate system that supersedes the old `coord_polar()`. Read on about the new `coord_radial()`

tidyverse ggplot2 Visualization Ggplot2-3-5-0 Tidyverse Packages

Mar 1, 2024

ggplot2 3.5.0: Axes

The 3.5.0 version of ggplot2 comes with an overhaul of the guide system. Read here what is new for axes

tidyverse ggplot2 Visualization Ggplot2-3-5-0 Tidyverse Packages

Feb 28, 2024

ggplot2 3.5.0: Legends

The 3.5.0 version of ggplot2 comes with an overhaul of the guide system. Read here what is new for legends

tidyverse ggplot2 Visualization Ggplot2-3-5-0 Tidyverse Packages

Feb 26, 2024

ggplot2 3.5.0

ggplot2 3.5.0 is now on CRAN. Discover what is new in this release

tidyverse ggplot2 Visualization Ggplot2-3-5-0 Tidyverse Packages

Feb 23, 2024

Great Tables `v0.3.0`: So Many Style Options!

New in Great Tables v0.3.0: control column widths, style entire tables, and use system fonts

Feb 16, 2024

Using Polars to Win at Super Bowl Squares

Use Polars and Great Tables to analyze which Super Bowl Squares give you the best odds

Feb 8, 2024

Great Tables `v0.2.0`: Easy Data Coloring

New in Great Tables v0.2.0: data_color() for automatic cell coloring based on values

Jan 24, 2024

Great Tables: The Polars DataFrame Styler of Your Dreams

Style Polars DataFrames for presentation using Great Tables and Polars expressions

Jan 8, 2024

scales 1.3.0

scales 1.3.0 is a minor release focusing on streamlining the API and gradual improvements of the existing utilities

tidyverse scales Visualization Tidyverse Packages

Nov 27, 2023

ggplot2 3.4.0

ggplot2 3.4.0 is now on CRAN. Read all about the (mostly internal) changes that make up this release

tidyverse ggplot2 Visualization Graphics Tidyverse Packages

Nov 7, 2022

tidyverse ggplot2 scales Visualization Tidyverse Packages

scales 1.2.0

scales 1.2.0 brings a number of small but useful improvements to numeric labels

Hadley Wickham

Apr 13, 2022

Filip Wästberg, Jesper Ludvigsen, Vilgot Österlund

How To Augment Tableau With R & Python - A Webinar and Case Study from Sweden

How To Augment Tableau With R & Python - A Webinar and Case Study from Sweden

In an upcoming webinar on November 17th, Solita will showcase how they successfully combined the strengths of RStudio and Tableau at one of Sweden’s largest government agencies

Nov 15, 2021

Interactive Apps Visualization BI Tools RStudio

svglite 2.0.0

svglite 2.0.0 is now on CRAN. This is a huge feature release and part rewrite, and should excite anyone who cares about vector graphics. Read on to find out what is new!

tidyverse svglite Visualization Graphic-Device Tidyverse Packages

Feb 8, 2021

flexdashboard Visualization Interactive Apps Data Science Dashboards RStudio Data Science Leadership

Custom Google Analytics Dashboards with R: Building The Dashboard

In this post, I continue our series on how to create your own Google Analytics dashboard in R. Using the data we downloaded in our last post, we'll now create a simple dashboard showing blog page views over time and highlighting the most popular ones

Carl Howe

Jan 6, 2021

ggplot2 dplyr Visualization Data Wrangling RStudio Data Science Leadership Data Visualization

Exploring US COVID-19 Cases and Deaths

Arthur Steinmetz, former Chairman, CEO, and President of OppenheimerFunds, uses R and the tidymodels package to explore the relationship between COVID-19 cases and mortality in the US

Art Steinmetz

Dec 23, 2020

Shiny Data Wrangling Visualization RStudio Data Science Leadership

Custom Google Analytics Dashboards with R: Downloading Data

This article, the first of three, describes how to use a code-oriented data science approach to Google Analytics data from a blog. It creates custom views of raw GA data while hiding the complexity of the Google Analytics data and interface

Carl Howe

Nov 27, 2020

Updates to ragg and systemfonts

We have recently updated some of our low-level graphics packages. Read on about what is new in ragg and systemfonts

tidyverse ragg systemfonts Visualization Tidyverse Packages

May 15, 2020

rmarkdown Visualization News Packages RStudio

Great Looking Tables: gt (v0.2)

Introducing gt v0.2: a grammar of tables for creating beautiful customized display tables in R

Richard Iannone

Apr 8, 2020

ggplot2 3.3.0

The next iteration of ggplot2 has just been released on CRAN, packed with new features and bug fixes. Read all about what's new here

ggplot2 Visualization Tidyverse Packages

Mar 5, 2020

tidyverse ggplot2 scales Visualization Rlib Tidyverse Packages

scales 1.1.0

scales 1.1.0 now available on CRAN. It includes a new naming scheme (with `breaks_` and `labels_` prefixes) and greatly improved documentation

Hadley Wickham

Nov 18, 2019

ggplot2 Community Visualization Internship Education

A Summer of RStudio and ggplot2

This past summer, I had the incredible opportunity to spend the summer as an RStudio intern working with Hadley Wickham on a few new features for the ggplot2 package

Dewey Dunnington

Oct 15, 2019