Data visualization course at MPIDR

Course announcement

Outline

Day 1, Monday, July 13: BASICS

• Basic dataviz principles (slides)
• Impressive dataviz showcasess
• Tidy approach to data

Day 2, Tuesday, July 14: TUNE-UP

• {ggplot2} intro
• Colors, themes and fonts
• Arranging and exporting plots

Day 3, Wednesday, July 15: TOOLBOX

• Useful types of plots
• Heatmaps, equality-line, ggridges, treemap
• Ternary plots and ternary colorcoding

Day 4, Thursday, July 16: INTERACT

• Population pyramids
• Interactivity with {shiny}
• Animation with {gganimate}

Day 5, Friday, July 17: MAPS

• The basics of map projections (slides)
• {sf} – the game changer in #rspatial, geom_sf
• Useful spatial processing tricks
• Mapping Europe with {eurostat}

Links to submit assignments

• Impressive dataviz -- https://bit.ly/dv-mpidr-cool (day 1) SUMBISSIONS
• Crappy dataviz -- https://bit.ly/dv-mpidr-crappy (day 1) SUMBISSIONS
• Ugly ggplot2 theme -- https://bit.ly/dv-mpidr-ugly (day 3) SUMBISSIONS
• Altmetric top-100 2019 -- https://bit.ly/dv-mpidr-alt (day 4) SUMBISSIONS