Visualise through gganimate all possible plots of same type for a dataset

[Robbie90]

So I was thinking, what about when you know you need to visualise some data and you know already there are different ways to visualise it but you don't know what will be the most informative one.

What about creating a function that given a set of variables performs all possible visualisation of a certain type and presents them in a handy gganimate gif.

Also, the types of visualisations that I was thinking about have already a handy source code that can be found here. 😃

[njtierney]

Heck yes! This sounds super! It's like a super-power for your plots.

[sa-lee]

This is a great idea - there's some interesting research on this in the vis community, like using constraint based programming to automate plot designs (see this blog post and also draco ).

[Robbie90]

Thanks @sa-lee that looks a super cool way to formalise the vizs to be plotted!!

[sa-lee]

Yep you can even add in some modeling to perform 'ranking' of designs 😜

[Robbie90]

Sounds like a dream! <3