Visualizing a horse-race

A reader on the Statistical Modeling blog has come up with an interesting application of ggplot2 in R: visualizing the placements over time of horses in a horse-race (click to enlarge):

The code for the chart is available at the link below. This is simulated race data, but it would be cool to see this chart for the recent upset in the Kentucky Derby.

Statistical Science: A horse-race graph!

Comments

[Agustin]

2009 Kentucky Derby bump chart with ggplot2

http://learnr.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/ggplot2-bump-chart/

[Joshua Ulrich]

Agustin,

I was thinking of posting the same link, but you saved me the trouble of looking for it. ;-)