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Timeline Maps with googleVis & Twitter Bootstrap Carousel (& updated Slidify)

I've wanted to create timeline maps with interactive googleVis Geomaps for a while. These would be a nice way to quickly show the spatial distribution of some data over time. It turns out that it's pretty easy to do with a plugin for Twitter Bootstrap called Carousel . Carousel is probably intended for regular picture slide shows. But because it can hold iframes, it can pretty much include anything, even interactive maps. Here is a short slide show with examples and code for how to combine googleVis and Twitter Bootstrap Carousel to create interactive timeline maps. Note: I used the newest version (0.3.1) of Ramnath Vaidyanathan's Slidify to create the presentation. He is really putting a lot of good work into that package. I especially like the choice to set the default slide framework to Google's I/O 2012 style. It has many features you don't find in other HTML slide frameworks. Particularly useful here, it begins to load iframes when you are on the ...

World Bank Visualizations with googleVis

Building on the last post: I just put together a short slideshow explaining how to use R to create Google Motion Charts with World Bank data. It uses the packages googleVis and WDI. It mostly builds on the example from Mage's Blog post . I just simplified it with the WDI package (and used national finance related variables).