Recreating YouGov Visualisations with plotnine

[jack-davison]

Plot

➡️ View the submission at: https://jack-davison.github.io/posit-plotnine-contest-2025/

This submission includes many recreations of YouGov graphics. The two nicest, I think, are:

Authors

Jack Davison

Links

bluesky, linkedin, github

Full description

This submission includes attempted one-to-one recreations of the visualisations in "Net favourability gap between Conservatives and Labour smallest in nearly four years" in Python and plotnine, originally published by Dylan Difford, a Junior Data Journalist at YouGov, on August 19, 2025. This submission shows how examples of effective data visualisation found "in-the-wild" can be recreated with the plotnine package. It also contains some surprises I found and reflections I had as an R user who only infrequently works in Python.

Code repository

🗃️ Repository: https://github.com/jack-davison/posit-plotnine-contest-2025

📃 Quarto Doc (plots): https://jack-davison.github.io/posit-plotnine-contest-2025/