Tidying and plotting in R

R is primarily known as a tool for statistics and data analysis, but it is also great for "simpler" data wrangling and plotting purposes. As R is becoming more accessible and useful in this regards, it is becoming a more viable alternative to Microsoft Excel and other spreadsheet-based applications for wrangling, analysing and visualising data. This has resulted in more R-users who are not from the "hardcore" STEM disciplines - like linguists, psychologists and researchers in political science. In this talk, Hedvig will introduce the concept of tidy data, the wonders of the tidyverse and ggplot for beginner users of R and experienced users who mainly use non-tidyverse packages.

Hedvig (https://sites.google.com/site/hedvigskirgard/) is a linguist working on Pacific languages at ANU. She focuses on grammatical structure and diversification, how one language becomes many. This is her final year of her PhD, and one the side she helps other linguists and humanities students with R.

Hedvig has kindly shared her slides (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11BE_fQv_ov8cCflxCcqa8tC3NY7u1UKH), for you to have a glimpse before coming to the event.

Please NOTICE that the location for this event has changed to CSIRO black mountain site. The entrance of Synergy building is opposite to discovery centre. We will put a sign at the entrance to show the direction to the meeting room - Stingbark on the ground floor.

Beginners and intermediate R users are all encouraged to come!