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R Data Visualization Cookbook

Over 80 recipes to analyze data and create stunning visualizations with R

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|Feb 2015
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Key Features

    Book Description

    If you are a data journalist, academician, student or freelance designer who wants to learn about data visualization, this book is for you. Basic knowledge of R programming is expected.

    What you will learn

    • Generate various plots in R using the basic R plotting techniques
    • Utilize R packages to add context and meaning to your data
    • Design interactive visualizations and integrate them on your website or blog
    • Communicate using visualization techniques, optimal for the underlying data being used as input
    • Create presentations and learn the basics of creating apps in R for your audience
    • Introduce users to basic R functions and data manipulation techniques while creating meaningful visualizations
    • Add elements, text, animation, and colors to your plot to make sense of data

    Who this book is for

    If you are a data journalist, academician, student or freelance designer who wants to learn about data visualization, this book is for you. Basic knowledge of R programming is expected.

    Table of Contents

    1. A Simple Guide to R
    2. basics of Plotting discreete data
    3. Heat Maps
    4. Maps
    5. Pie charts and its Alternatives
    6. Adding the Third Dimentsion
    7. Data in higher Dimension
    8. Beyond Time Series Plot
    9. Some fun with Plots
    10. Showing Author Information
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78398-951-5
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2015
    Language: English
    Pages: 236