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Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction

By Kieran Healy · Princeton University Press · 2018

Study guide: Exam PA

A hands-on primer that teaches the principles and practice of data visualization. Princeton University Press says it covers what makes some graphs succeed and others fail, how to make reproducible, high-quality figures in R using ggplot2, and how to visualize data honestly. Worked examples build from summaries of single variables to more complex graphics, including small multiples, layered information, maps and output from statistical models, using the tidyverse tools and a library of datasets, code and functions.

On the syllabus

  • Exam PA — Chapters 1-4. The syllabus notes that this book may be available as web pages at socviz.co, that the web version can be viewed only on the web with no PDF to download, and that the author has indicated the web version may at some point be discontinued.

1 Look at Data

2 Get Started

3 Make a Plot

4 Show the Right Numbers

5 Graph Tables, Add Labels, Make Notes

6 Work with Models

7 Draw Maps

8 Refine Your Plots

Acknowledgments

Appendix

References

Index

Sources