Intro to R | Part 2: Dataviz w/ PATH-GREU
Details
This is part 2 of a 2-part workshop. Make sure you register for part 1 as well!
RSVP here: https://forms.office.com/r/c89V4eqJTZ
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/jananiravi/workshop-tidyverse
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!
- PRIORITY: PATH-GREU students, followed by CU grad students
- Hosted in collaboration with Rladies. All genders welcome!
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