Week 8: Visual Display of Data Part 2

This week we will continue our exploration of graph-making in R.

This week we will focus on the basics of making a plot publication-quality.

Lecture Topics

  • What makes a plot publication-quality?
  • Fixing axes, reordering factors, considering data-density
  • Figure captions
  • Exporting for publication
  • Doing all of the above in both ggplot and base

Resources

The most important resource this week is the ggplot2 cheat sheet

The PACE system can be accessed at this link

Activities

Within the R project there is an analysis file with basic code for a couple of plots. In-class (not for marks) you will make one of these publication-quality.

Code and Data

Week 8 project

Lecture slides

Slides available via speakerdeck