Week 5: Data manipulation & visualization
Agenda
No homework / no quiz today. Next Tuesday you will have your first exam.
Lecture on data manipulation with tidyverse functions, and data visualization (mostly using base R and ggplot)
We will not cover interactive plots. Ways to create interactive plots are very flexible and there is no unified approach. For examples, see:
Hands-on lab explore a dataset based on a large scale survey project, called The Changing Childhood Project, conducted by unicef. You will create visualizations that will be printed and posted on the wall next to my office.
Supportive reading outside class
(Optional but recommended):
- H. Wickham (2014): Tidy Data Link
Hadley Wickham is the author of ggplot and tidyverse. He is currently the chief scientist at Posit.