2025 Posit Plotnine and Great Tables Contest Submission
On August 21 2025, Posit announced the 2025 Table and Plotnine contests. I was always impressed with the resulting submissions from previous years, so this year I decided to participate.
Initially, I decided that the plotnine contest sounded like a great opportunity to see how to use the python port of ggplot2. I had no experience with plotnine, but lots with ggplot2.
However, after finishing my submission for plotnine, I turned my attention to the table contest. I wasn’t certain if I had the time to make another high quality submission. But I felt that I had a great idea that I haven’t seen done before. So I reconsidered and decided to make a smaller single post entry for the table contest.
Exploring Canada Job Market Data with plotnine
For the 2025 plotnine contest, I wanted to explore official Canadian labour statistics using Plotnine.
Using quarto, I created a website, which hosts the final submitted visualization, and a tutorial on how I developed the visualization.
The visualization uses the plotnine, which is a visualization library from python, heavily inspired by the grammar of graphics. I used polars to crunch the data.
Coronavirus Spike Proteins with r-gt
For the 2025 Posit Table contest I wanted to explore how MSAs can be effectively visualized using the r package gt. This has been something I have wanted to do for a long time, and felt like this would be great way to share some of the exploration with the community.
