Workshop: Basic Data Visualization with R (2 lessons)

Date: 16 Mar 2023 (Thu) & 23 Mar 2023 (Thu)

Time: 18:00 – 20:30

Target Audience: All Students

Venue: Online via MS Teams 

Pre-requisite:

• Basic R programming skill
  

Medium of Instruction: English

 Course Description：

• Choose the proper chart from different chart types
• Create various charts
• Customize the chart layout
• Understand your data better by using grouping, faceting and multiple geometric objects in the same plot
  
  

Course Outline:

1. Lesson 1
   1. Understand 4 basic presentation types and create typical charts
   2. Comparison
      • Line charts
      • Bar charts
   3. Distribution
      • Histograms
      • Boxplots
   4. Composition
      • Treemap
      • Stacked column charts
   5. Relationship
      • Scatter plots
      • Correlation matrix

       

2. Lesson 2
   1. Customization of chart layout
      • Customize some chart features (e.g., fonts, colors, axes, titles) through various graphic options
   2. Multivariate visualization
      • Grouping and faceting
      • A practical website for generating graphical approaches in R
   3. Practical coursework throughout the workshop