Week 2

Data Visualisation & Data Organisation in Spreadsheets

Learning Objectives

1. Learners can describe the four main aesthetic mappings that can be used to visualise data using the ggplot2 R Package
2. Learners can control the colour scaling applied to a plot using colour as an aesthetic mapping
3. Learners can compare three different geoms and their use case
4. Learners can apply a theme to control font types and sizes within a plot
5. Learners can apply 12 principles for data organisation in spreadsheets in the layout of a collected dataset

Slides

🖥 Lecture 2 - Data visualisation - HTML

🖥 Lecture 2 - Data visualisation - Download PDF

Readings

📖 Read R for Data Science - Section 3 to 3.6 - Data visualisation

📖 Read Fundamentals of Data Visualization - Section 2 - Visualizing data: Mapping data onto aesthetics

📖 Read Data Organization in Spreadsheets

Homework assignment

Complete the homework programming assignments that are in your project folder for week 2 on RStudio Cloud:

• hw-02a-data-visualisation.qmd
• hw-02b-project-data.qmd

Learning reflection

Complete the learning reflection that is in your project folder for week 2 on RStudio Cloud (learning-02.qmd).