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Data Visualization Principles and Practices

 2018-10-11 |  Jeffrey Girard |  Presentations |  

Data Visualization Principles and Practice

Tutorial on the principles and practice of data visualization, including an introduction to the layered grammar of graphics, the ggplot2 package for R, and one possible workflow for visualization.

Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/jmgirard/data-visualization-principles-and-practice
Resources: https://jmgirard.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/data-viz.zip
Video: https://youtu.be/Fe1XV-cCF94

Books

  • Cairo, A. (2016). The truthful art: Data, charts, and maps for communication. San Francisco, CA: New Riders.
  • Tufte, E. R. (2001). The visual display of quantitative information (2nd ed.). Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.
  • Wickham, H., & Grolemund, G. (2017). R for data science. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media.
  • Wickham, H. (2016). ggplot2: Elegant graphics for data analysis (use R!) (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Springer.

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