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R Data Visualization Recipes

You're reading from R Data Visualization Recipes A cookbook with 65+ data visualization recipes for smarter decision-making

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788398312

Length 366 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

R

Tools

ggplot

Concepts

Data Visualization

Author (1):

Bianchi Lanzetta

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

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Preface

1. Installation and Introduction FREE CHAPTER

2. Plotting Two Continuous Variables

3. Plotting a Discrete Predictor and a Continuous Response

4. Plotting One Variable

5. Making Other Bivariate Plots

6. Creating Maps

7. Faceting

8. Designing Three-Dimensional Plots

9. Using Theming Packages

10. Designing More Specialized Plots

11. Making Interactive Plots

12. Building Shiny Dashboards

Chapter 10. Designing More Specialized Plots

This chapter covers the following recipes:

Drawing wonderful facets zoom with the ggforce package
Drawing sina plots with ggforce
Using ggrepel to plot non-overlaying texts
Visualizing relation data structures with ggraph
Drawing alternative lollipop and density plots with ggalt

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Authors (1)

Bianchi Lanzetta

Bianchi Lanzetta

Vitor Bianchi Lanzetta (@vitorlanzetta) has a master's degree in Applied Economics (University of So PauloUSP) and works as a data scientist in a tech start-up named RedFox Digital Solutions. He has also authored a book called R Data Visualization Recipes. The things he enjoys the most are statistics, economics, and sports of all kinds (electronics included). His blog, made in partnership with Ricardo Anjoleto Farias (@R_A_Farias), can be found at ArcadeData dot org, they kindly call it R-Cade Data.

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