Visualizations II: Customizing plots in ggplot2

Keywords

workshop, ggplot, data visualization, customize

Abstract

In the last workshop, we looked at the basics of data visualization and data types and introduced the library ggplot2. Specifically, we looked at scatter plots and how we can plot shapes, color, size, and text. We looked at plotting one variable, whether it be categorical with a barplot or continuous with a histogram. Finally, we looked at boxplots and violin plots, and started to show how to overlay multiple plots in one image.

Today’s workshop will focus less on the different kinds of plots and instead will show how you can modify things to suit your needs. Specifically, we’ll take a closer look at modifying colors, reordering and renaming categorical variables, adding titles, modifying axes, legends, faceting, themes, and saving plots. It sounds like a lot, but it shouldn’t be too bad. After today, you’ll go from a the basic, default plots to something you might want to include in a presentaton or paper.

Document Type

Other

Publication Date

2018

Permanent URL

http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/8825

Language

English

College

Humanities

Department

Linguistics

University Standing at Time of Publication

Assistant Professor

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