Welcome to Data Visualization with ggplot2

Through this workshop, we hope to equip you with the skills to make effective and eye-catching visualizations, with any data.

Before the workshop, install the following packages with install.packages("PACKAGE NAME"):

Need to have

• ggplot2
• gapminder
• RColorBrewer

Nice to have (optional) (to make one plot right at the end)

• gganimate
• plotly
• gifski
• htmlwidgets

Learning objectives

At the end of this workshop, you will be (able to):

1. Be familiar with the basic grammar of ggplot2
2. Make ggplots for different kinds of data
3. Customize ggplots for more effective and aesthetically pleasing visualizations

Schedule

0:00	Welcome and using Zoom
0:05	Introduction
0:10	Workshop code
0:50	Interactive and animated plots
0:55	Conclusion and discussion
1:30	Optional Q&A

Resources

Cheat sheets to ggplot code:

• ggplot2 cheat sheet (posit)
• ggplot2 cheat sheet (datacamp)

This workshop was developed by Jared Connoy (Author), Ashley Yue Mao (Contributor) and Grigory Artazyan (Contributor).