Workshop 1: Import, visualise, and manipulate data
Read before class on Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Readings
- ModernDive Chapters 2-3
- Hans Rosling, “200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes”
- R4DS Chapter 11, Data Import
- R4DS Chapter 5, Data transformation
- Chapter 2 in Claus Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization
- Chapter 3 in Kieran Healy, Data Visualization
Recommended
- See how to create your own COVID-19 tracking chart with R
- R package
ggThemeAssistis a useful GUI that edits the appearance of your plot (labs, scales, ticks, etc.) without you needing to remember specific code. - The fullest look yet at the racial inequality of Coronavirus
Questions to reflect on
- What data was mapped to which aesthetics in Rosling’s video?
- What data would you need to create the bar plot in NYT’s article?
Session Files
- You can download all session files (data, code, etc.) by pulling from course Github repo.