While many media properties including the New York Times, FiveThirtyEight and FlowingData use the R language to prepare graphics for publication, they often use Adobe Illustrator or similar graphics tools to touch up the last 5% or so of the graphics. Not so for Switzerland's news site swissinfo.ch, whose data journalist Duc-Quang Nguyen created these gorgeous bar charts showing the representation of major countries in various categories of Olympic events in Rio: Note the use of an attractive colour pallette, style-compatible fonts, and even the official Olympic icons for the sports. I just took a screenshot here, but if you...