Data Visualization Using R – April 2023

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A 3-Day Livestream Seminar Taught by Kieran Healy, Ph.D.

The effective use of graphs and charts is an important way to explore data for yourself and to communicate your ideas and results to others. Being able to produce effective plots from data is also the best way to develop an eye for reading and understanding visualizations made by others, whether presented in academia, business, policy, or the media.

This seminar provides an intensive, hands-on introduction to the principles and practice of data visualization. We will begin with an overview of some basic principles. We will focus not just on the aesthetic aspects of good plots, but on how their effectiveness is rooted in the way we perceive properties like length, absolute and relative size, orientation, shape, and color. You will learn how to produce and refine plots using ggplot, a powerful, versatile, and widely-used visualization library for R. It implements a “grammar of graphics” that gives us a coherent way to produce visualizations by expressing relationships between the attributes of data and their graphical representation.

Through a series of worked examples, you will learn how to build plots piece by piece, beginning with summaries of single variables and moving on to more complex graphics. Topics covered include plotting continuous and categorical variables, layering information on graphics; faceting grouped data to produce effective “small multiple” plots; transforming data to easily produce visual summaries on the graph such as trend lines, linear fits, error ranges, and boxplots; creating maps, together with simpler alternatives to maps for country – or state – level data.

We will also cover cases where we are not working directly with a dataset but rather with estimates from a statistical model. Using these tools, we will then explore the practical process of refining plots to accomplish common tasks such as highlighting key features of the data, labeling particular points, annotating plots, and changing their overall appearance. Finally, we will examine some strategies for presenting graphical results in different formats (such as in print, online, or in slides) and to different sorts of audiences.

At the end of the course, you will:
– Understand the basic principles behind effective data visualization.
– Have a practical sense for why some graphs and figures work well while.
others may fail to inform or actively mislead.
– Know how to create a wide range of plots in R using ggplot2.
– Know how to refine plots for effective presentation.

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