Data Visualization for a Public Audience
Make data meaningful through storytelling. Design better charts, graphs, interactives, and dashboards by learning foundational graphic design principles and the universal grammar of data-based graphics.
Session I
Truth and Beauty with Data in R: An Introduction to the Tools
February 16, 2024
- Learn how to use R and the tidyverse to load, manipulate, and plot data
- Become familiar with the grammar of graphics—a new way to talk about data-based graphs
- Discover core graphic design principles that you can apply to any designed document
- No prior coding experience is necessary
Session II
Visualizing Data in R: Core Applications
April 12, 2024
- Learn best practices for visualizing amounts, proportions, uncertainty, comparisons, and relationships.
- Discover best practices for styling and annotating data-based graphics
- A basic understanding of R and {ggplot2} is required/highly recommended
Session III
Visualizing Data in R: Extensions: Time, Space, and Text
June 7, 2024
- Make interactive plots and dashboards
- Visualize trends in data over time
- Make maps and conduct basic geographic information systems (GIS) analysis
- Learn the best ways to visualize text and qualitative data
- A basic understanding of R and {ggplot2} is required/highly recommended