Name: Plot Twist: Bringing Your ggplot2 Visuals to Life with ggplotly
Start: 2025-09-18T17:30:00+10:00
End: 2025-09-18T19:30:00+10:00
Location: DiUS

Transform your static R plots into interactive, engaging visual stories! In this hands-on workshop, we’ll take pre-organised ggplot2 code and show you how to enhance it with **ggplotly**, making your data come alive for presentations, dashboards, and reports.

Through practical **case studies**, you’ll explore a variety of visualisations, learn **why certain methods are best for different data types**, and see **how interactive features can add depth and clarity** to your insights.

Whether you prefer to follow along in R with the required packages installed or explore the concepts via Google Colab and copy the code once you get home, you’ll gain actionable tips to elevate your R visualisations—no matter your platform. By the end, you’ll be ready to make your data **clickable, hoverable, and truly dynamic**.

📝 **Workshop details:**
📅 18th of September
🕒 5:30-6:00pm (in-person networking & food provided)
🕒 6:00pm-7:30pm (workshop)
📍 DiUS 3/31 Queen St, Melbourne VIC 3000

🛠 **Before the workshop:**
✅ Ensure you have battery charged on your laptop
✅ Optional: Install RStudio if you want to run the code from your computer
✅ Google Collab will be used if you don't want to worry about package installation

Kirsty McCann

Dionne Argy

R-Ladies Melbourne

R-Ladies

CSL provides us with funding that makes our events possible! 

Nous Group supports us by providing a great space to run our events 

Nous Group

Zendesk kindly provides us with a space and drinks for all our events.

Zendesk

It gives us occasional space for events and space for meetings

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI)

R User Group

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Women Science Technology Engineering & Mathematics

Girls in Tech

Data Visualization

Data Science

Programming in R

R Project for Statistical Computing

Women Programmers

Data Analytics

Computer Programming

Dr Kirsty McCann is an Associate Research Fellow working in malaria genomic epidemiology at Deakin University in Geelong. As a bioinformatician, Kirsty enjoys combining R coding, problem-solving, and infectious disease data analysis to answer a range of different research questions. 

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