You won’t believe how easy it is to create animated bar charts in the R programming language to show rankings over time. Racing bar charts can be a useful way to visualize comparative data over time.

We all know Google is big, but it can be completely gobsmacking to realize just how big Google really is. I recently came upon a mesmerizing animated bar chart on the wonderful Visual Capitalist site.

Here’s another animated “bar chart race” visualization of US annual natural gas production for the top ten producing US states from 1967 to 2018. From out of nowhere, note the dramatic rise in ...