Week 9: Data Display 3

In this lecture we will take another step forward into the world of beautiful, effective plots.

Lecture Topics

• Colours
  • What are they for?
  • Adding data density with colour
  • Colour-blind safe palettes
  • Using dichromat to verify palette choices
• Multipanel plots and faceting

Resources

• Multipanel plotting in base graphics
• Multipanel plotting in ggplot2
• multiplot function
• Self-study, via Lukasz Piwek’s “Tufte in R” page

R Project

• Week 9 R Project

Minor Assignment 3

See slides for details. Download link:

• 6002_Minor3.zip

Lecture slides

Slides available via speakerdeck