Visualizing various types of data

Lecture 3

Dr. Benjamin Soltoff

Cornell University
INFO 5001 - Fall 2024

September 5, 2024

Announcements

Announcements

  • Use the discussion board for course-related questions
  • Lab 01 and Homework 01 tomorrow

Warm up

Revisiting average heights

The way data is displayed matters

What do these plots show?

Application exercise

The prognosticator of all prognosticators

ae-01

  • Go to the course GitHub org and find your ae-01 (repo name will be suffixed with your GitHub name).
  • Clone the repo in RStudio, run renv::restore() to install the required packages, 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 the day

Recap of AE

  • Pick geoms based on data types.
  • Set appropriate binwidths for histograms.
  • Turn off legends when they provide redundant information with show.legend = FALSE.
  • Create plots with multiple geoms, and pay attention to order.

First day of preschool

My daughter Rosemarie sitting on the driveway after her first day of preschool.