Resources Mentioned

Resources Mentioned, Data Matters Fall 2024

• Cedri Scherer, ggplot2 expert
• ggplot2 extensions gallery
• HTML widgets gallery
• Angela’s sample flexdashboard, published on RPubs
• Example flexdashboard projects

Resources Mentioned, Data Matters Fall 2023

• Additional code samples generated in class
• Pie charts in Plotly
• HTML Widgets Gallery
• Books:
  • Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte
  • The Grammar of Graphics by Leland Wilkinson
• R packages:
  • Combining charts
    • patchwork - The Composer of Plots • patchwork
    • cowplot - Arranging plots in a grid • cowplot
    • gridExtra - small explaination here: 4.5 The grid Package | Mastering Software Development in R
  • ggthemes - package:ggthemes • All Your Figure Are Belong To Us more themes for ggplot, used by many newspaper graphics teams
  • ggplot geoms that I use most as an Epidemiologist
    • geom_linerange - Vertical intervals: lines, crossbars & errorbars — geom_crossbar • ggplot2
    • coord_flip - Cartesian coordinates with x and y flipped — coord_flip • ggplot2
• and lastly, the savior of all programmers, StackOverflow (and sometimes Reddit, although that is much less trustworthy sometimes)

Resources Mentioned, Data Matters Spring 2023

• Advanced Game of Thrones Exercise

Resources Mentioned, Data Matters 2022

• Extra code created in class

Books

• ggplot2 book
• R for Data Science book
• Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction, by Kieran Healy
• What they forgot to teach you about R book
• Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualization book
• Outstanding User Interfaces with Shiny book
• Happy Git and GitHub for the useR book

Chart design

• Color Brewer
• Top R Color Palettes to Know for Great Data Visualization
• Cookbook for R: Shapes and line types
• Themes in ggplot2
• ggthemes package

Other related packages and tools

• here package
• Ode to the here package
• Shiny for Python
• Shiny UI Editor
• Use the RWordPress package to write blogs on Wordpress
• How to update your Wordpress.com blog from R

Additional tutorials and teachers

• R-Ladies
• rstudio::conf()
• useR! conference
• Julia Silge
• Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel
• Cédric Scherer
  • A ggplot2 tutorial for beautiful plotting in R
  • The evolution of a ggplot - ep. 1

Sample projects and places to practice

• Makeover Monday
• Tidy Tuesday
• Kyle Chan electoral results mapping example

Resources Mentioned, Data Matters 2021

• Kyle Chan paper and mapping example
• Angela Zoss dissertation example
• Angela Zoss basic charts example
• esquisse package, drag-and-drop ggplot2 builder
• Plotly web interface
• Exploratory interactive R project builder
• Angela Zoss additional examples for Plotly, Crosstalk, etc.
• HTML Widgets gallery
• HTML Widgets showcase
• Crosstalk-compatible HTML widgets
• TIER Protocol for project organization