Gettin' Vizzy Wit It: Tidy Tuesday

Have you heard of Tidy Tuesday? It is a weekly visualisation challenge set by Thomas Mock from the R4DS community. Each week there is a new dataset posted to the github page (https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday) and people have a go creating some kind of visualisation using ggplot. Lots of people then post their plots to twitter with the hashtag #tidytuesday.

It is so fun to see how other rstats users approach the same dataset and because you can see the code that produced each plot, it is a great way to learn new ggplot tips and tricks.

At this event, we are going to play with some Tidy Tuesday data. Jenny Sloane, who is a PhD student from UNSW Psychology, has kindly offered to lead us through a demo, showing us how to access the most recent Tidy Tuesday data. She is going to LIVE CODE a visualisation of it to give us a taste of what Tidy Tuesday is all about.

Then we will break into teams, pick a different dataset and work together to produce a visualisation that we can share with the group at the end of the night.

This is a great opportunity for those who don't know ggplot to learn from those who do. Social learning at its best!