r-weekly

The evolution of squad compositions at UEFA European Championships

Euro 2024 Whilst waiting for a delayed flight I managed to update my uefa-ec GitHub repository with new data on the squads at the current European Championships from Wikipedia, and the code to visualise where national team players play their club football using the chordDiagram() function in the circlize R package.

Animated population tree maps

Background The global population hit 8 billion today. To mark the passing an absolute population total I created some animated tree map plots in R to visualize relative past and future population totals for all countries.

Animated Sankey plots of global migrant populations

Background Sankey plots have been used to visualize bilateral migration many times. My favorite examples of Sankey plots for migration data tend to be when there are only few regions or countries.