Session 7 Visualizing Places (Part 1)

Session Description

This session marks our first explorations of data visualization in R using the GGPlot2 package. We will spend time working through structuring our data for visualization, and work to develop several options for visualizing common data types. We will also talk about pre-visualization and thinking about how data fits into our narrative structure.

This Week’s Reflection Prompt

  • How is working with data via a command line interface different from using a graphical user interface?
  • How do we balance reproducibility of our analysis with accessibility of the analytical tools?
  • What’s challenging for you right now regarding learning and using R? What are the “a-ha” moments that you’re celebrating?

Before Class

Healy, Kieran. (2019). Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Chapters 3 and 4)

Please download the lab files. We will be working in the same lab notebook on Thursday.

Last updated on Sep 14, 2021