Effective Data Visualisation with R

Paul Murrell, The University of Auckland

Topics

Monday 5 August10:30-12:00Introduction
The Visual System
1:00-2:30The {ggplot2} Package
Quantitative Data
3:00-4:30Qualitative Data
Visual Accuracy and Capacity
Tuesday 6 August10:30-12:00Combining Visual Features
Multiple Visual Features
1:00-2:30Text
Graphic Design
3:00-4:30Customisation
Review

To see solutions to exercises, remove the "-redacted" from the URLs in the links above.

Data

Data and scripts tar ball.
To load the data sets, download and uncompress the tar ball ...
... OR just clone pur002.github.io ...
... OR just download a zip file from pur002.github.io ...
... then run the "exercises.R" script.
(that script assumes you are using R Studio; you may need to adjust paths).

Collaboration

We can share questions, code, and images via Google Docs for Day 1 and Day 2.