Recreating the WaPo solar eclipse data visualization in R

I will give a short talk about how to recreate one of the Washington Post’s solar eclipse visualizations, namely this:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/eclipse/img/_grid-980.png?c=342
I did this using only ggplot2 for the visualization part, which shows how powerful this package can be.
The code and my version is on my website:
https://danielberecz.rbind.io/2017/07/12/recreating-washing-post-s-solar-eclipse-plot-in-r/

Berecz Dániel
Application Development Associate, Accenture Kft.

Daniel currently works at Accenture Hungary as an Application Development Associate with a focus on Data Visualization. He is interested in data analysis and data science with open source tools like R and Python. He has a Master’s degree in Business Information Systems from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.