Part 1: Dipping Your Toes into Data Visualization with R

Slides

We recommend that you open the html slides with Google Chrome web browser.

0. Getting started
1. Grammar of Graphics Catalogue
2. Multiple layers, facetting and tidying your data
3. Scales and color
4. Publication-ready plots

Schedule

Time	Activity
8.45-9.00	Registration + Installation Help
9.00-9.30	Lesson 1: Getting started with grammar of graphics
9.30-9.45	Break out session
9.45-10.15	Lesson 2: Multiple layers, facetting and tidying your data
10.15-10.30	Break out session
10.30-11.00	Coffee Break
11.00-11.30	Lesson 3: Scales and color
11.30-11.45	Break out session
11.45-12.15	Lesson 4: Publication-ready plots
12.15-12.30	Break out session

Exercises

Before getting started, you will need to install the following R-packages:

install.packages(c( 'tidyverse',
                    'ggrepel',
                    'usethis',
                    'agridat',
                    'catdata',
                    'colorspace',
                    'patchwork',
                    'rmarkdown',
                    'remotes',
                    'shiny',
                    'hexbin'))

For doing the exercise locally, first download the exercise Rmd and solution Rmd files in the same directory. Then “Knit” the solution file first to see the target plot in the exercise file.

1. Mastering the geoms exercise Rmd html solution Rmd html solution

2. Taming data and multiples exercise Rmd html solution Rmd html solution

3. Playing with scales and color exercise Rmd html solution Rmd html solution

4. Jazzy plots exercise Rmd html solution Rmd html solution