I used to do something a bit like these a long time ago and have resurrected them as a way of dipping a toe back into football analysis. They violate just about every rule of data visualisation, but they’re fun and I like them. Think of them as a souvenir poster of a match, rather…
Visualising the London Marathon route with R, rayshader and geoviz
If you’ve been reading my recent posts, you might have already played with geoviz, that makes it easy to draw rayshader scenes in R. Recently we learned how to quickly draw any location you like in rayshader and to add GPS tracks. What if you want to draw a scene with data that doesn’t come…
Adding GPS tracks to rayshader scenes with geoviz
Welcome to part 2 of how geoviz can help you to quickly draw 3D scenes using the rayshader package. If you haven’t read part 1 yet, you might want to start here. Still reading? Then let’s put some GPS data in a rayshader scene! You can use any GPS data that you want, but depending…
I can see my house from here! Your favourite places in 3D with R, rayshader and geoviz.
I’ve spent plenty of time recently with Tyler Morgan Wall‘s rayshader R package, learning a lot about visualising geographic data along the way. I fly paragliders and early on in my exploration, put together a few helper functions to add gps traces from glider flights to rayshader scenes and to make it easier to prepare…
More fun with Rayshader
I’ve been playing with Rayshader again, trying to achieve nice colour schemes and adding GPS tracks from some of my paraglider flights. If you’d like to do the same and draw pretty 3D pictures of pieces of the UK using OS Terrain 50 data, you can take a few shortcuts by finding my R code…
Football Wind Maps
I’ve had this project in mind for quite a while because it merges some weather data visualisation that appeals to my inner paraglider pilot, with football stats. Wind maps like these have become quite common, starting with static images and progressing into genuinely useful tools like windy.com. I wondered if something similar might be…
A 3D Lake District in R and Rayshader
If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll have seen that I’ve got quite excited about a new R package called Rayshader. It lets you do similar things to my terrain shading efforts in Google Earth, but with much more control and cooler looking output. In the UK, we’re lucky to have the OS terrain 50 dataset,…
Using R to add custom layers to Google Earth
Google Earth is amazing and with a little bit of effort, it can also be a brilliant platform for 3D data visualisation. Adding data to Google Earth isn’t too tough, especially now that the Pro version is free. Its KML files provide an XML based format to draw lines and polygons, apply raster images to…