Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 25/09/2026I think they used to be and I found at least one from that time, Stoense. All product names since 2020 are Swedish though: www.ikea.com/se/en/custom... 110
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 25/09/2026IKEA names its sofas after Swedish places, and most of its armchairs follow the same rule. IKEA Sweden sells 64 of them right now, and I put every one on a map. Pick a sofa or armchair and see where it comes from! karaman.is/ikea-place-n... #dataviz #maps 4397
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 23/09/2026This week's #TidyTuesday is about urban green space from UN Habitat. Two in three of 1,112 cities lost green space since 1990. The largest gain was only 18 percentage points, while three cities lost more than 60. Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz 0121
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 20/09/2026This week's #TidyTuesday is the Dead Sea Scrolls. An Euler diagram of the 28 canonical books in the collection, by manuscript language. 18 are Hebrew only, Leviticus is the only one in all three. Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz 0141
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 13/09/2026This week's #TidyTuesday uses the Cappuccino Index by @jameshoffmann.bsky.social. A barista in India works 2h 52m to earn one cappuccino. In Australia, 10 minutes. Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz 0110
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 06/09/2026This week's #TidyTuesday is about castles. I mapped the 5,793 castles, fortresses and palaces in Castlemap, from Wikidata. Europe holds 4,083 and Asia 1,280. Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... 0151
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 26/08/2026This week's #TidyTuesday is about country music lyrics. I ranked words by the share of each year's Top 30 singles using them. Girl, time and love have swapped the top three places every year since 2013 Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz 070
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 20/08/2026This week's #TidyTuesday is IELTS scores by nationality. Each country is drawn as its shape placed by average score. Countries where English is official score high, but Germany is highest at 7.57. Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz 090
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 19/08/2026static.klipy.comOprah Winfrey's 'That's Not Right' ReactionAlt: Oprah Winfrey's 'That's Not Right' Reaction 010
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 16/08/2026This week's #TidyTuesday is the Palomar spectroscopic survey of more than 400 galaxy cores Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz 070
Reposted by Georgios Karamaniscoolbutuseless @coolbutuseless.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Moody render with {rayrender} with #Backrooms palette * gyroid: sin(x).cos(y) + sin(y).cos(z) + sin(z).cos(x) * isosurface at level = 0 * meshed via surface nets * render with {rayrender} #RStats 042
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 09/08/2026This week's #TidyTuesday is about wool from Lesotho. From May 2018 it all had to be sold through one broker at home, and China's share went from 56% to 94%. The rule ended in 2019 and it fell to 33%. Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz 090
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 02/08/2026For building the cartograms I used the very cool popgrid library github.com/databites-te... 040
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 02/08/2026This week's #TidyTuesday is about where Australians holiday, summer vs winter. Each square is an equal share of all holiday trips. In winter the country moves north, Queensland goes from 14% to 23% Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz 1130
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 25/07/2026This week's #TidyTuesday is about near-death experiences from NDERF. I scraped about 5,570 entries and plotted the day and month each person gave as the date of their experience. Most of the calendar is even, but some dates stick out. Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz 080
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 15/07/2026This week's #TidyTuesday is about the penguins in the AVONET database of bird traits (Tobias et al. 2022). Ten body measurements for 93 penguins, across 18 species and six genera Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz 0121
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 12/07/2026Filamentous #RStats code: github.com/gkaramanis/a... #Rtistry #generativeart 0215
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 11/07/2026This week's #TidyTuesday looks at how UFC fights end: the heavier the division, the bigger the share of knockouts Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz 090
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 01/07/2026This week's #TidyTuesday maps shipwrecks off Ireland, from the Wreck Inventory of Ireland Database Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz 0416
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 26/06/2026This week's #TidyTuesday compares two papal encyclicals 135 years apart. The chart shows the words that most set the two texts apart. Words drawn with {lofifonts} Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz 2130
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 20/06/2026This week's #TidyTuesday is about UK baby names given to both boys and girls. These twelve names saw the balance between the two shift the most from 1997 to 2024 Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz 0130
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 14/06/2026This week's #TidyTuesday is about films based on video games Built as a Quarto reveal.js presentation using the timeline extension by @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social Interactive version at karaman.is/blog/2026/06... Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #QuartoPub #dataviz 1396
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 06/06/2026Haha, I had the same idea as well, this is so much better! Well done! 110
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 06/06/2026This week's #TidyTuesday looks at maternity leave across Europe: How many weeks before and after birth, and how much is mandatory vs voluntary. Ireland leads at around 40 weeks total, the UK at just 2. 0121
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 06/06/2026static.klipy.comJames Bond Spectre Gun Barrel SequenceALT: James Bond Spectre Gun Barrel Sequence 020
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 31/05/2026This week's #TidyTuesday maps traditional biomass (firewood, charcoal, dung) as a share of final energy use from 1990 to 2010. In the world's poorest countries it supplied most of their energy, a marker of energy poverty rather than a green choice. Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz 0162
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 23/05/2026This week's #TidyTuesday is about Crossref metadata quality. I made a table showing how well the top 20 countries by journal article volume document their research Made with {gt} Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz 0204
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 14/05/2026This week's #TidyTuesday is about twin cities. I built a scrollytelling map about Rio de Janeiro's 93 sister city agreements Made with Quarto and Closeread Interactive: 019e2679-54db-2e9a-2e03-8bbc8b92210f.share.connect.posit.cloud Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz 3387
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 10/05/2026This week's #TidyTuesday is about Italian industrial production. A simple line chart combining Istat statistics with data from Wikipedia Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz 1120
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 06/05/2026Haha, thanks Cédric! To be fair, I had more free time than before, and planning worked out pretty well this year 000
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 03/05/2026Thank you! I learned that as well, hopefully it is correct 😅 Not the easiest dataset to work with! 010
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 03/05/2026This week's #TidyTuesday is about US agricultural import tariffs. Sugar is the only category with a hard annual import quota. Once that fills, trade effectively stops. Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz 171
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 30/04/2026And that's a wrap for #30DayChartChallenge! The personal theme for this year was Uppsala transportation. Additional constraints were using the same color palette, fonts, plot orientation and dimensions across all plots. #Rstats code for all 24 plots at github.com/gkaramanis/3... #dataviz 4483
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 29/04/2026#day29 of #30DayChartChallenge, (almost) Monochrome code: github.com/gkaramanis/3... #RStats #dataviz 082
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 28/04/2026#day28 of #30DayChartChallenge, Modeling code: github.com/gkaramanis/3... #RStats #dataviz 093
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 28/04/2026Much better at getting things right, concise and efficient, very well-tuned to data/R stuff! 010
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 27/04/2026I have been using Claude Code since last month, it’s been mostly okay. Tried the free trial of Posit assistant in RStudio recently, easily the best AI for R 110
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 27/04/2026#day27 of #30DayChartChallenge, Animation If you squint hard enough, you can see it moving code: github.com/gkaramanis/3... #RStats #dataviz 082
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 26/04/2026#day26 of #30DayChartChallenge, Trend code: github.com/gkaramanis/3... #RStats #dataviz 091
Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 25/04/2026#day25 of #30DayChartChallenge, Space code: github.com/gkaramanis/3... #RStats #dataviz 1112