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"Basic data viz" & "Advancing with data viz in R using ggplot2" for Boston University's "Data+Narrative" workshop

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# Data visualization in R: base R and `ggplot2`

Data + Code for **"Basic data visualization in R"** and **"Advancing with data visualization in R using `ggplot2`"** at the [Data+Narrative](http://www.bu.edu/com/data-narrative/) storytelling workshops at Boston University on Thursday, June 7th 2018.

Note the "Advancing with data visualization in R using `ggplot2`" workshop is ~90% the same as a workshop on the same topic I gave at BU last year.

Equivalent materials for **"Tricks for cleaning your data in R"** available, from 2017, are [here](https://github.com/underthecurve/r-data-cleaning-tricks).

## Links to install R and RStudio

* [R](https://www.r-project.org/): website for the R software
* [RStudio](https://www.rstudio.com/): website for RStudio, a powerful graphical user interface for R

## Files included

### Annotated code and step-by step instructions for the workshop

* [R-basic-dataviz.md](https://github.com/underthecurve/r-dataviz-ggplot2/blob/master/R-basic-dataviz.md): Markdown file (for viewing on the web)

* [R-basic-dataviz.pdf](https://github.com/underthecurve/r-dataviz-ggplot2/blob/master/R-basic-dataviz.pdf): PDF file (for printing out)

* [R-advancing-with-dataviz.md](https://github.com/underthecurve/r-dataviz-ggplot2/blob/master/R-advancing-with-dataviz.md): Markdown file (for viewing on the web)

* [R-advancing-with-dataviz.pdf](https://github.com/underthecurve/r-dataviz-ggplot2/blob/master/R-advancing-with-dataviz.pdf): PDF file (for printing out)

### R code

The R code for each class, which can be run in RStudio:

* [R-basic-dataviz.R](https://github.com/underthecurve/r-dataviz-ggplot2/blob/master/R-basic-dataviz.R)

* [R-advancing-with-dataviz.R](https://github.com/underthecurve/r-dataviz-ggplot2/blob/master/R-advancing-with-dataviz.R)

### Underlying data needed to run the R code
* [boston_weather.csv](https://github.com/underthecurve/r-dataviz-ggplot2/blob/master/boston_weather.csv): data on weather in Boston on June 7th (the day of this workshop) from 2007 to 2017, from [Weather Underground](https://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KBOS/2007/6/7/DailyHistory.html?req_city=&req_state=&req_statename=&reqdb.zip=&reqdb.magic=&reqdb.wmo=). See [processing-weather-data.R](https://github.com/underthecurve/r-dataviz-ggplot2/blob/master/processing-weather-data.R) for more details.

* [life.csv](https://github.com/underthecurve/r-dataviz-ggplot2/blob/master/life.csv): data on life expectancy for each country from 2000 to 2015, from the [World Health Organization](http://apps.who.int/gho/data/view.main.SDG2016LEXv?lang=en)

## How to follow this workshop

* You can clone or download this repository by clicking on the green button above, "Clone or download"
* Open the `.R` file in RStudio 
* Follow along by reading the `.md` file online or printing the `.pdf` file out by clicking the Github links above

## Additional resources

* [Visual Vocabulary](https://github.com/ft-interactive/chart-doctor/tree/master/visual-vocabulary) by the *Financial Times*
* [The Data Visualisation Catalogue](https://datavizcatalogue.com/index.html) by Severino Ribecca
* [On Graphonyms: the Importance of Chart Type Names](https://xeno.graphics/articles/on-graphonyms-the-importance-of-chart-type-names/) by Maarten Lambrechts
* [“A Simple Introduction to the Graphing Philosophy of ggplot2”](https://tomhopper.me/2014/03/28/a-simple-introduction-to-the-graphing-philosophy-of-ggplot2/) by Tom Hopper
* [ggplot2 Cheat Sheet](https://www.rstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ggplot2-cheatsheet.pdf) by RStudio
* [ggplot2 Documentation](http://docs.ggplot2.org/current/) by Hadley Wickham & Winston Chang
* [Resources for Doing Data Journalism](http://rddj.info/) by Timo Grossenbacher
* [Shapes and Line Types in R](http://www.cookbook-r.com/Graphs/Shapes_and_line_types/) by Winston Chang

## Questions / Feedback?

ychristinezhang at gmail dot com

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[@christinezhang](https://twitter.com/christinezhang)

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