Ten tips for better text: typography meets ggplot and friends

Join us for an engaging talk on transforming data stories through effective text management, color usage, and dynamic content.

Data Visualization Expert Cara Thompson will provide valuable insights and practical coding tips to enhance your data visualizations in R. Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your data storytelling skills!

There are often many facets to our data stories, which we need to present succinctly enough for our readers to want to engage with.

In this talk, we will explore how to make text work for us, by first considering how much of it we really need.

Once we've decluttered and explored how we can use colours to be less text-dependent, we'll look at how to optimise text hierarchy in descriptions and in-plot annotations to keep the main thing the main thing, and how to create dynamic content and alignments.

Finally, we'll explore coding tricks to apply these typography tips to tables and interactive plots, giving readers additional information on demand.

Throughout the talk, Cara will share the packages and code snippets used to create and modify plots in R straight from readily available data.