About Vistat

Statistical graphics are powerful – your eyes will jump to the graph below immediately and skip this paragraph automatically. When we see a nice graph, we often wonder how it was made (e.g. this one via xkcd).

Vistat aims to provide working recipes for statistical graphics by building them from source. The website is based on Github/Jekyll, and graphs are generated dynamically through the R package knitr, hence reproducibility is guaranteed, and readers can see the source code at the same time.

Latest 10 posts

• 18 Apr 2013 » Demonstration of the Law of Large Numbers
• 16 Apr 2013 » Buffon's needle
• 15 Apr 2013 » Demonstration of the Central Limit Theorem
• 13 Apr 2013 » The Bean Machine and the Central Limit Theorem
• 08 Apr 2013 » Cheat Sheets for Plotting Symbols and Color Palettes
• 08 Apr 2013 » Mathematical Annotation in R
• 31 Mar 2013 » Draw Easter Eggs
• 27 Mar 2013 » Simulation of Coin Flipping
• 26 Mar 2013 » Making Visual Illusions in R
• 24 Mar 2013 » Demonstration of the Gradient Descent Algorithm
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How to contribute

You can fork the repository on Github, add your article to the _source directory and submit a pull request to us. We will run your code and upload images. For more details, see about.

Copyright

All the content in this website is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. This site is hosted on GitHub Pages using the Dinky theme for Jekyll Bootstrap.