Great Sources on Data Visualization (with R)

2021-02-23 Daniel Doing Science, General Tips, Improving your Creativity, Learning, Learning to do Science, Other Programs, Science, Tools 0

«The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures.»
Ben Shneiderman

There are three sources on data visualization that I can highly recommend:

Claus O. Wilke does some beautiful work, esp. in “Fundamentals of Data Visualization” and the course “SDS 375: Data Visualization in R” he is currently developing (he has put the content on github and the slides are great).
Wickham & Grolemund’s “R for Data Science” is still a great book to get familiar with R. They start with visualization and thus making it easy to see the effect of one’s commands.
Kieran Healy’s “Data Visualization — A practical introduction” is also very interesting. Stumbled upon it today via the Wilke course.

The great thing — all three books (and the course material) can be accessed for free. And R (and RStudio) is free as well.

Made my day … lots of times 🙂

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Great Sources on Data Visualization (with R)