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APHREA: Visualization

APHREA: Visualization

Jeff Goldsmith

April 04, 2022
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  1. 2 • Looking at data is critical – True for

    you as an analyst – True for you as a communicator • You should make dozens of graphics for each dataset – Most of these are for your eyes only – A (small) subset are for others A picture is worth 1000 words
  2. 3 • Makes good graphics with relative ease – “Relative”

    here is compared to base R graphics Why ggplot? “Don’t teach built-in plotting to beginners (teach ggplot2)” – blog post by David Robinson vs
  3. 4 • Cohesiveness shortens the learning curve – Same principles

    underlie all graphic types Why ggplot? “hello ggplot2!” – talk by Jenny Bryan
  4. 5 • Lots of materials online • google is your

    friend – Start searches with “ggplot” – StackOverflow has lots of questions and useful answers – Don’t worry about googling stuff you “should know” Learning ggplot
  5. 6 • Basic graph components – data – aesthetic mappings

    – geoms • Advanced graph components – facets – scales – statistics • A graph is built by combining these components • Components are consistent across graph types – Scatterplots, bar graphs, density plots, ridge plots … Using ggplot