Description
An out there primer on the right way to create efficient images from data
This ebook supplies scholars and researchers a fingers-on creation to the foundations and observe of knowledge visualization. It explains what makes a few graphs be triumphant even as others fail, the right way to make high quality figures from information the use of tough and reproducible strategies, and the right way to take into consideration information visualization in a good and efficient approach.
Data Visualization builds the reader’s experience in ggplot2, a flexible visualization library for the R programming language. Via a sequence of labored examples, this out there primer then demonstrates the right way to create plots piece via piece, starting with summaries of unmarried variables and shifting directly to extra advanced images. Subjects come with plotting steady and express variables; layering information on images; generating efficient “small more than one” plots; grouping, summarizing, and remodeling information for plotting; growing maps; running with the output of statistical fashions; and refining plots to lead them to extra understandable.
Effective images are very important to speaking concepts and an effective way to raised keep in mind information. This ebook supplies the sensible abilities scholars and practitioners want to visualize quantitative information and get probably the most out in their research findings.
- Provides fingers-on guideline the use of R and ggplot2
- Shows how the “tidyverse” of knowledge research gear makes running with R more uncomplicated and extra consistent
- Includes a library of knowledge units, code, and functions
