DataThink Development
  • Modules
  • R Help
  • Resources
    • Course Textbook
    • R for Data Science
    • Git/GitHub and R
    • R Markdown: The Definitive Guide
    • Geocomputation with R

    • Supplemental Material
    • Happy Git and Github for the useR
    • plotly for R
    • Computing in R for Social Sciences
    • Statistical Concepts in Presenting Data:
    • Advanced R
    • R Packages
    • Tidy evaluation
    • Fundamentals of Data Visualization
    • Geocomputation with R
    • Crosstalk: htmlwidgets add-on

On this page

  • Case Study 1: Critiquing Visualizations
    • Background
    • Reading
    • Tasks
    • Code Snippet

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Case Study 1: Critiquing Visualizations

Background

Your first weekly project requires you to submit a review of 4-5 different data visualizations used to answer specific questions. Some fun websites are pudding.cool, wonkblog, fivethiryeight, and priceonomics (but you can use any website, blog, or article with a good visualization).

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Reading

This reading will help you complete the tasks below.

  • o Making your first R Markdown File
  • o Chapter 27: R for Data Science - R Markdown
  • o Chapter 30: R for Data Science - R Markdown workflow

Tasks

Code Snippet

plot(1:20)