Intro to Datviz
Details
WHAT TO EXPECT
This workshop will provide a practical introductory overview (with hands-on practice) with making data visualizations in R using ggplot2 (https://ggplot2.org/).
Material: github.com/rladies-aurora/202409-dataviz_intro
WHO is this for?
- If you are new to R & are short-budgeted on time!
- If you'd like to start working with data in R w/o learning all the programming details first!!
- If you are getting started with base R and want to learn more!
- If you're interested in learning DataViz basics w/ R.
- If any of this is true, this workshop might be for you!
TOPICS
- why everyone talks about data visualization!
- how to pick the right visualization for your data
- overview of visualization packages: ggplot2, ggvis, leaflet, plotly
- why use ggplot2 in R for visualization
- the basics of 'aesthetics'
- the basics of 'geoms'
- other ways to customize the layout of your visualization
AGENDA
5:00–5:10 Meet & Greet | 🍕
5:10–5:15 Future Meetup planning + Set-up
5:15–6:15 Workshop: Intro to Data Visualization w/ R
6:20–6:30 Q&A
SET-UP
- To benefit most from this workshop, please bring your laptop with pre-installed RStudio (https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/) and R.
- Please ping us on Discord (https://discord.gg/hyZKcbGSWw) or email us (eastlansing@rladies.org) with questions, if any.
💰SPONSOR
- JRaviLab (PI: Janani Ravi) | https://jravilab.github.io