Communicating with Data in the Tidyverse

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DataCamp

Course Features

Duration

4 hours

Delivery Method

Online

Available on

Limited Access

Accessibility

Mobile, Desktop, Laptop

Language

English

Subtitles

English

Level

Intermediate

Teaching Type

Self Paced

Video Content

4 hours

Course Description

As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. Graphics are not enough to help you promote data analysis. You need to be unique and attractive. This course will teach you how to use the ggplot2 themes in order to create publication-quality graphics that are different from the many boilerplate plots. This course will teach you how to create unconventional plots that are very popular on social media, and how to optimize your ggplot2. This knowledge will allow you to combine it to create a professional-looking, professionally-looking report using RMarkdown.

Course Overview

Virtual Labs

International Faculty

Post Course Interactions

Hands-On Training,Instructor-Moderated Discussions

Case Studies, Captstone Projects

Skills You Will Gain

Prerequisites/Requirements

Introduction to the Tidyverse

What You Will Learn

In the end, you will combine that knowledge to produce a slick and custom-styled report with RMarkdown and CSS – all of that within the powerful tidyverse

This course teaches you how to leverage the power of ggplot2 themes for producing publication-quality graphics that stick out from the mass of boilerplate plots out there

Course Content

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Module 1: Custom ggplot2 themes

Module 2: Creating a custom and unique visualization

Module 3: Introduction to RMarkdown

Module 4: Customizing your RMarkdown report

Course Instructors

Timo Grossenbacher

Project Lead Automated Journalism at Tamedia

Timo Grossenbacher is a project lead for automated journalism at Swiss publisher Tamedia. Prior to that, he used to be a data journalist working with the Swiss Public Broadcast (SRF), where he used s...