Chapter 3: Data Visualisation

This chapter introduces the basics concepts of the {ggplot2} package for data visualisation in the tidyverse.

1Introduction

2The grammar of graphics

3Exercise: Practice the grammar of graphics

4Customising plots

5Exercise: Practice the customisation

6Include ggplot in pipes

7Exercise: Practice the pipes with ggplot

About this course

This tutorial uses contents and examples from the following free online books. They are perfect for beginners, feel free to check them out for further information: R for Data Science by Wickham and Grolemund (2017), A ModernDive into R and the tidyverse by Ismay and Kim (2019), Learning statistics with R by Navarro (2019), Introduction to Open Data Science by the Ocean Health Index Team (2019), Getting Used to R, RStudio, and R Markdown by Kennedy (2019) and Statistical Thinking for the 21st Century by Poldrack (2020).

About me

Ph.D in Social and Experimental Psychology from the University Grenoble-Alpes, France, my researches are focusing on understanding psycho-physiological responses ‘in the wild’. Now Assistant Professor of Business Research Methods at Dublin City University, my domain of expertise relies on multivariate time series analysis and trend extraction for supervised or unsupervised machine learning classification.