Visualizing various types of data

Lecture 4

Dr. Benjamin Soltoff

Cornell University
INFO 5001 - Fall 2023

2023-08-30

Warm up

Revisiting average heights

Questions from the prepare materials?

The way data is displayed matters

What do these plots show?

Application exercise

The prognosticator of all prognosticators

ae-02

• Go to the course GitHub org and find your ae-02 (repo name will be suffixed with your GitHub name).
• 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

• 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.

Book recommendation