Mastering Data Visualization with ggplot2

Latest Techniques and Best Practices

The Team

Teachers

  • Thomas Lin Pedersen (me)

  • Teun van den Brand

TA

  • Kara Woo

You

  • Introduce yourself to the person next to you
    • Your name
    • What you do in 3 words
    • Something you’ve done that made you proud
  • 3 minutes
03:00

Today

  1. Introduction

  2. Modern ggplot2

    Coffee break

  3. Text rendering and font use

    Lunch

  4. Styling your plot

  5. Plot composition

    Coffee break

  6. Plot composition (cont.)

  7. Creating extensions or Spice up your plot

Exercises

  • There will be exercises scattered throughout the day
  • If you get stuck:
    • Ask the person next to you
    • Ask for help (pink post-it on laptop)
    • Use the hints
    • (Don’t ask an AI)
  • The exercises are for you, so give it your best shot
  • Once you’re finished put the green post-it up
  • You may not have time for all of them — That is OK!
  • You will become very familiar with the palmerpenguins dataset
    • Or you can use another with more relevance to you

Practical information

Workshop website: https://pos.it/ggplot2-conf25

 

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