introducing vizscorer: a bot advisor to improve your ggplot plots
One of the most frustrating issues I face in my professional life is the plentitude of ineffective reports generated within my company. Wherever I look around me is plenty of junk charts, like barplot showing useless 3D effects or ambiguous and crowded pie charts. I do understand the root causes of this desperate state of the art: people have always less time to dedicate to reports crafting, and even less to dedicate to their plot. In the crazy and speedy-going working life, my colleagues have no time and for learning data visualization principles. Even so, this remains quite a big problem since a lot of time and money-wasting consequences come from poorly crafted reports and plots:
I live in Italy, and more precisely in Milan, a city known for fashion and design events. During a lunch break I was visiting the Pinacoteca di Brera, a 200 centuries old museum. This museum is full of incredible paintings from the Renaissance period. During my visit I was particularly impressed from one of them: “La Vergine con il Bambino, angeli e Santi”, by Piero della Francesca.
I personally really appreciate the InstallR package from Tal galilli, since it lets you install a great number of tools needed for working with R just running a function.