The grammar of graphics

Lecture 3

Dr. Benjamin Soltoff

Cornell University
INFO 5001 - Fall 2023

2023-08-28

Announcements

  • “Graded” AEs begin – commit and push to your repo by 11:59pm tomorrow

Warm up

Examining data visualization

Discuss the following for the visualization.

  • What is the visualization trying to show?

  • What is effective, i.e. what is done well?

  • What is ineffective, i.e. what could be improved?

  • What are you curious about after looking at the visualization?

03:00

Source: Twitter

Questions from the prepare materials?

Application exercise

ae-01

  • Go to the course GitHub org and find your ae-01 (repo name will be suffixed with your NetID).
  • Clone the repo in RStudio Workbench, open the Quarto document in the repo, and follow along and complete the exercises.
  • Render, commit, and push your edits by the AE deadline – end of tomorrow.

Recap of AE

  • Construct plots with ggplot().
  • Components of ggplots are separated by +s.
  • The formula is (almost) always as follows:
ggplot(DATA, aes(x = X-VAR, y = Y-VAR, ...)) +
  geom_XXX()
  • Aesthetic attributes of a geometries (color, size, transparency, etc.) can be mapped to variables in the data or set by the user, e.g. color = binary vs. color = "pink".
  • Use facet_wrap() when faceting (creating small multiples) by one variable and facet_grid() when faceting by two variables.

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