Building Data Visualization Tools

Intermediate Level
1 week to complete at 10 hours a week
Flexible Schedule

Roger D. Peng, PhD , Brooke Anderson

Skills You’ll Gain

Interactive Data Visualization Datamaps Visualization (Computer Graphics) Geographic Information Systems R Programming Scatter Plots Ggplot2 Data Visualization Software Histogram Software Development Graphic and Visual Design

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There are 5 modules in this course

Before we get started, we'll take a quick overview of the course.

Now, we'll dive into creating and customizing ggplot2 plots.

Mapping is a critical part of many data visualizations. During this module, we'll teach you how to create simple and dynamic maps with ggplot2 and ggmap, how to overlay data, and how to create chloropleth maps of US counties.

The grid package in R implements the primitive graphical functions that underly the ggplot2 plotting system. In this module, you'll learn how to work with grid to build graphics.

Building and modifying a theme in ggplot2 is a key feature of the ggplot2 package and system for building data graphics. In this final module, you'll learn to build a new theme and modifying existing themes with new features.