Welcome to my GSoC 2025 Journey

Follow my journey through Google Summer of Code 2025, where I'll share weekly updates, progress reports, and insights into the Animint2 project I'm passionate about. This blog documents my growth, challenges, and achievements throughout this incredible opportunity.

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Work Summary & Pull Requests (Till Now)

PR #208

Adding Code Coverage

Adding code coverage using codecov

Adding code coverage for both R+JS and deploying combined coverage on Codecov for animint2

PR #203

Adding geom_aligned_boxes

Implementing geom_aligned_boxes

Introducing a new geom (geom_aligned_boxes) positioned using quadprog . Useful when you want multiple labels to appear near data points (like time series categories), but they shouldn't overlap or scatter randomly.

PR #197

Tooltip Implementation

Adding aes(tooltip) using d3

Implemented interactive tooltips using D3 for better user experience in visualizations.

PR #29

Gallery Port - Phase 1

Porting 3 visualizations with demo videos

Successfully ported three key visualizations from the old gallery to the new Animint2 gallery with demo video

PR #30

Gallery Port - Phase 2

Porting 6 additional visualizations

Successfully ported six more visualizations from the old gallery to the new Animint2 gallery

PR #27

Tornado Visualization

US tornado visualization with demo

My first visualization port with demo video

Project Overview

Organization: R Project for Statistical Computing

Sub-Project: Animint2

Project Title: "Advancing Animint2 - Testing, Rendering and Gallery port"

Project Idea Page: View on GitHub

Project Proposal: View Proposal

Student: Suhaani Agarwal (India)

Mentors:

Toby Dylan Hocking (Evaluating Mentor)
Yufan Fei (Co-Mentor)

Project Goals:

Implementing new interactive features and faster tooltips
Improving visualization layouts and rendering performance
Fixing critical rendering issues and bugs
Porting and refining the Animint gallery
Optimizing overall interactivity and user experience
Enhancing documentation and testing coverage

Over the span of 3 months, I'm documenting key milestones, challenges, and breakthroughs in this comprehensive development journal.

About Animint2 & the R Organization

R is a powerful language and environment for statistical computing and graphics, widely used among statisticians, data scientists, and researchers for data analysis and visualization worldwide.

Animint2 is an innovative R package that extends the popular ggplot2 library to enable animated, interactive plots for the web using modern HTML, JavaScript, and SVG technologies. It's particularly valuable for visual storytelling, interactive dashboards, and dynamic data communication.

This project aims to push the boundaries of data interaction, making advanced visualizations more accessible, performant, and user-friendly for both developers and end-users. Through this work, we're contributing to the broader ecosystem of statistical computing and data visualization.