The Recurse Center puts out a quarterly publication called Code Words, which publishes articles that try to capture the fun of digging into a problem and learning about programming. I wrote a piece on the grammar of graphics, and how it can provide a language for exploring and talking about data visualization. It uses examples from R’s ggplot package, but the ideas are more general. Check out my article, and other great articles from RC alums, in the sixth issue of Code Words!