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cm002 - September 28, 2016

Overview

Identify the importance of graphics in communicating information
Define the layered grammar of graphics
Practice generating layered graphics using ggplot2

Slides and links

Slides

Graphical design and R

Tufte, Edward R. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Classic book on statistical graphics and visualization design.
Wickham, Hadley. (2010). A Layered Grammar of Graphics. Journal of Computational and Statistical Graphics.

ggplot2

ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis, 2nd Edition – Hadley Wickham. Excellent resource for learning the intricacies of ggplot2.
Documentation for ggplot2
Why do we learn the ggplot2 graphics library and not the base graphics system? David Robinson explains it well in Don’t teach built-in plotting to beginners (teach ggplot2), and follows up with a longer defense of ggplot2 in Why I use ggplot2

Useful cheatsheets

Data visualization with ggplot2 cheat sheet
RStudio IDE Cheat Sheet - if you don’t know what all the buttons and panels do in RStudio, this is a great decoder

To do for Monday

Work on homework 1
Chapters 5-8 from R for Data Science

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