Computation Skills Workshop: Data visualization with ggplot2

Benjamin Soltoff

Data visualization with ggplot2

Overview

Data visualizations are an important tool for communicating scientific findings. Visualizations encode empirical data in a compact and efficient form to help tell a story using your data. This workshop provides an introduction to creating statistical graphics using R and the ggplot2 package.

Objectives

Produce scatter plots, boxplots, and barplots using ggplot2
Overlay multiple plot types on a single graph
Set universal plot settings
Describe faceting (or small multiples plots) and apply faceting in ggplot2
Modify the aesthetics of an existing ggplot() plot
Build complex and customized plots from data in a data frame

Audience

This workshop is designed for individuals with a basic familiarity using R and programmatic tools to conduct data analysis.

Location

Room 295 in 1155 E 60th St.

Prework

Register for this workshop. Due to the current public health crisis, all participants must register in advance using this form.
Please sign up for a free RStudio Cloud account.
Once you have created your RStudio Cloud account, join the workshop organization.

Links

Source materials for the workshop on GitHub

To download these materials to your local computer, use the code below:

usethis::use_course("css-skills/dataviz")

Acknowledgments

Workshop materials are derived from R for Social Scientists licensed under Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

Corrections

If you see mistakes or want to suggest changes, please create an issue on the source repository.

Reuse

Text and figures are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution CC BY-NC 4.0. Source code is available at https://github.com/css-skills/site, unless otherwise noted. The figures that have been reused from other sources don't fall under this license and can be recognized by a note in their caption: "Figure from ...".

Citation

For attribution, please cite this work as

Soltoff (2021, Oct. 5). Computation Skills Workshop: Data visualization with ggplot2. Retrieved from https://css-skills.uchicago.edu/posts/2021-10-05-data-visualization-with-ggplot2/

BibTeX citation

@misc{soltoff2021data,
  author = {Soltoff, Benjamin},
  title = {Computation Skills Workshop: Data visualization with ggplot2},
  url = {https://css-skills.uchicago.edu/posts/2021-10-05-data-visualization-with-ggplot2/},
  year = {2021}
}