Session 3 of the Library’s Fall R series focuses on data visualization using the ggplot2 package. ggplot2 offers a modular and flexible set of tools for visually exploring data as well as producing publication-ready plots. We will tour popular plot types such as histograms, bar charts, and scatter plots. Attending sessions 1🔗 and 2🔗 is strongly recommended. No previous experience with statistics is expected. 

Topics discussed: 

• “Grammar of graphics” and “aesthetic mapping” concepts 

• Univariate plots (histograms and density plots) 

• Comparing distributions: box and violin plots 

• Scatter plots 

• Bar charts 

• Heat maps of two-way tables 

• Line graphs 

• Small multiples (faceting) 

• Labeling, theming, and annotation 

Register for session 4 here.

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This workshop is part of our Coding and Computational Methods Series.

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