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Introduction to Tidyverse Plots

The document introduces different plot types in R including line plots, scatter plots, bar plots, histograms, and box plots. It demonstrates how to create these plots using functions from the tidyverse and ggplot2 packages. Examples use data from the gapminder dataset to visualize life expectancy trends over time and differences between continents. The conclusion recommends further learning data visualization with ggplot2, data manipulation with dplyr, and data importing/cleaning.

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Introduction to Tidyverse Plots

The document introduces different plot types in R including line plots, scatter plots, bar plots, histograms, and box plots. It demonstrates how to create these plots using functions from the tidyverse and ggplot2 packages. Examples use data from the gapminder dataset to visualize life expectancy trends over time and differences between continents. The conclusion recommends further learning data visualization with ggplot2, data manipulation with dplyr, and data importing/cleaning.

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Line plots

I N T R O D U C T I O N TO T H E T I DY V E R S E

David Robinson
Chief Data Scientist, DataCamp
INTRODUCTION TO THE TIDYVERSE
Types of plots

INTRODUCTION TO THE TIDYVERSE


Scatter vs line plot

geom_point() geom_line()

INTRODUCTION TO THE TIDYVERSE


Line plot

ggplot(year_continent, aes(x = year, y = meanLifeExp, color = continent)) +


geom_line() +
expand_limits(y = 0)

INTRODUCTION TO THE TIDYVERSE


Let's practice!
I N T R O D U C T I O N TO T H E T I DY V E R S E
Bar plots
I N T R O D U C T I O N TO T H E T I DY V E R S E

David Robinson
Chief Data Scientist, DataCamp
Summarizing by continent
by_continent <- gapminder %>%
filter(year == 2007) %>%
group_by(continent) %>%
summarize(meanLifeExp = mean(lifeExp))

by_continent

# A tibble: 5 x 2
continent meanLifeExp
<fctr> <dbl>
1 Africa 54.80604
2 Americas 73.60812
3 Asia 70.72848
4 Europe 77.64860
5 Oceania 80.71950

INTRODUCTION TO THE TIDYVERSE


Bar plot

ggplot(by_continent, aes(x = continent, y = meanLifeExp)) +


geom_col()

INTRODUCTION TO THE TIDYVERSE


Let's practice!
I N T R O D U C T I O N TO T H E T I DY V E R S E
Histograms
I N T R O D U C T I O N TO T H E T I DY V E R S E

David Robinson
Chief Data Scientist, DataCamp
Histogram

ggplot(gapminder_2007, aes(x = lifeExp)) +


geom_histogram()

INTRODUCTION TO THE TIDYVERSE


Adjusting bin width

ggplot(gapminder_2007, aes(x = lifeExp)) +


geom_histogram(binwidth = 5)

INTRODUCTION TO THE TIDYVERSE


Log x-axis
scale_x_log10()

INTRODUCTION TO THE TIDYVERSE


Let's practice!
I N T R O D U C T I O N TO T H E T I DY V E R S E
Box plots
I N T R O D U C T I O N TO T H E T I DY V E R S E

David Robinson
Chief Data Scientist, DataCamp
Histograms

ggplot(gapminder_2007, aes(x = lifeExp)) +


geom_histogram()

INTRODUCTION TO THE TIDYVERSE


Box plots

ggplot(gapminder_2007, aes(x = continent, y = lifeExp)) +


geom_boxplot()

INTRODUCTION TO THE TIDYVERSE


Histogram vs box plot

INTRODUCTION TO THE TIDYVERSE


Let's practice!
I N T R O D U C T I O N TO T H E T I DY V E R S E
Conclusion
I N T R O D U C T I O N TO T H E T I DY V E R S E

David Robinson
Chief Data Scientist, DataCamp
Transforming and visualizing data with R

INTRODUCTION TO THE TIDYVERSE


Next steps: Data visualization
Data visualization with ggplot2

INTRODUCTION TO THE TIDYVERSE


Next steps: Data manipulation
Data manipulation with dplyr

INTRODUCTION TO THE TIDYVERSE


Next steps: Importing and cleaning data
Importing and cleaning data

INTRODUCTION TO THE TIDYVERSE


Next steps: Practice!
Exploratory Data Analysis in R: Case Study

INTRODUCTION TO THE TIDYVERSE


Enjoy your data
science journey!
I N T R O D U C T I O N TO T H E T I DY V E R S E

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