Tidy Friday: Practicing Data Visualization in R

Practice your data wrangling and visualization skills with other members of R-Ladies! During this virtual event, participants will report on their experience working on a shared dataset.

The R for Data Science Online Learning Community hosts a weekly "Tidy Tuesday" project in which they release a curated dataset every Tuesday for R users to practice data skills. We are meeting on Friday so that you have time to work on the dataset on your own.

How it works:

1. Read about the dataset here: https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/blob/master/data/2020/2020-09-08/readme.md

2. Import the data into R using the instructions in the website above (we suggest using the code in the section titled "# Or read in the data manually")

3. Try to make a graph in R using the data. For some inspiration, search Twitter for #TidyTuesday.

4. Meet on Zoom during the event time. Message an organizer if you didn't receive the meeting password.

5. During the meeting, share your code and graph with the other participants using the "Share Screen" feature in Zoom or talk about where you got stuck and we'll work through it together.

Everyone's contribution is valuable, even if you're new to R! There are so many different ways to do things in R that your approach may be new to experienced R users.