Week 3

Data Visualisation & Data Organisation in Spreadsheets

Learning Objectives

1. Learners can describe the four main aesthetic mappings that can be used to visualise data using the ggplot2 R Package.
2. Learners can control the colour scaling applied to a plot using colour as an aesthetic mapping.
3. Learners can compare three different geoms and their use case.
4. Learners can apply a theme to control font types and sizes within a plot.
5. Learners can apply 12 principles for data organisation in spreadsheets in the layout of a collected dataset.

Slides

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Readings

1. Read R for Data Science - Section 3 to 3.6 - Data visualisation

2. Read Fundamentals of Data Visualization - Section 2 - Visualizing data: Mapping data onto aesthetics

3. Read Data Organization in Spreadsheets

Homework assignment

Complete the homework programming assignment that is in your project folder for week 3 on Posit Cloud

• hw-03a-data-visualisation.qmd
• hw-03b-project-data.qmd

Learning reflection

Complete the learning reflection that is in your project folder for week 3 on Posit Cloud

• learning-03.qmd