Workshop 1: Import, visualise, and manipulate data
Read before class on Friday, October 15, 2021
Class Video
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.
Alternatively, please install package
usethis. Once you have it, you can download, unzip, and open everything within an RStudio project by typing the following in the RStudio console
usethis::use_course("https://github.com/kostis-christodoulou/usi_EMBA_analytics/raw/master/session2-workshop1.zip")