Intro to Data Visualization w/ R

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/).

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
• publication quality figures w/ R

AGENDA
6:00–6:10 Meet & Greet | 🍕
6:10–6:20 Future Meetup planning + Set-up
6:20–7:20 Workshop: Intro to Data Visualization w/ R
7:20–7:30 Q&A

• To benefit most from this workshop, please bring your laptop with pre-installed RStudio (https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/).
  Please ping us on Slack (https://rladies-eastlansing.slack.com) or email us (eastlansing@rladies.org) with questions, if any.

Sponsor: Social Science Data Analytics, MSU https://ssda.msu.edu/