Week 5: Joining, and Visualizing Data
Schedule
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8:30 - 9:00 [BB] joining data wk05_joining with functions from dplyr
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9:00 - 9:45 [NT] visualization Intro
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9:45 - 10:00 break
- 10:00 - 10:15 [NT] case study Slides
- 10:15 - 11:30 [NT] ggplot2 Examples
Assignments
Joining Data (Individual)
Visualizing Data (Group)
- Submit 2 plots: one based “thin” data set; the other based on data of interest to your group; utilize some of the features from ggplot2 presented in class.
- Link to files clim.csv clim and thin.csv thin
- Meta data on thin.csvmeta
Resources
Data Wrangling with dplyr
& tidyr
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Visualizing with ggplot2
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- A Simple Introduction to the Graphing Philosophy of ggplot2 | R-bloggers
- Grammar of Graphics | Introduction to R
- Wickham, H (2010) A Layered Grammar of Graphics. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
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[15 Data Visualizations That Will Blow Your Mind Udacity](http://blog.udacity.com/2015/01/15-data-visualizations-will-blow-mind.html) -
[Improving R Data Visualisations Through Design Spatial.ly](http://spatial.ly/2014/11/r-visualisations-design/) - Inkscape - open-source vector graphics editor to spruce pdf plot outputs like above