Overview

Welcome to Week 3 of the course, focussing on ‘Data visualisation and storytelling’.

This week you will learn about key concepts in visualisation and storytelling and know how to create customised plots in R.

Learning Outcome

By the end of this week, you should have a critical awareness of:

1. Data visualisation and its aims

2. How data visualisation fits into data storytelling

3. Explain and demonstrate the use of the key elements required when creating visualisations in ggplot2

Structure of this week’s materials

  1. Data Visualisation: 1 reading

  2. Data visualisation aims: 1 reading

  3. Data Storytelling: 1 reading

  4. Plotting data with ggplot2: 1 reading with code samples, 2 optional practice exercises, 2 videos

  5. Going Further with R Markdown: 1 reading with code samples

  6. More Wrangling and Plotting: 1 reading

  7. Introduction to using Git and GitHub with RStudio: 1 reading