Basic Data visualization with R

Date: 22 Feb 2024 (Thu) & 29 Feb 2024 (Thu) 

Time: 14:30 - 17:00

Venue: Online via Zoom

Target Audience: All Students

Medium of Instruction: English

Pre-requisite

• Basic R programming skill

What you will learn

• Choose the proper chart from four basic presentation types and some typical chart types
• Create the various charts
• Customize the chart layout
• Understand better your data by using grouping, faceting and multiple geometric objects in the same plot
• Hands-on coursework will be provided to practise your skill

Course outline

(Lesson 1)

Understand four basic presentation types and create typical charts

• Comparison
  • Line charts
  • Bar charts
• Distribution
  • Histograms
  • Boxplots
• Composition
  • Treemap
  • Stacked column charts
• Relationship
  • Scatter plots
  • Correlation matrix

(Lesson 2)

• Customization of the chart layout
  • Customize some features of charts (such as fonts, colors, axes, titles) through various graphic options
• Multivariate visualization
  • Grouping and faceting
• A website guides you toward your chart and generate a chart