Oliver Kirchkamp
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Graphs and visualising data

The course combines asynchronous and synchronous teaching.

I would like students to do two things:

Asynchronous part
Synchronous part
The synchronous part starts on Tuesday, 30 April. We will discuss the exercises, your questions and your comments.

For this part we will use RStudio and the software mentioned below.

Motivation
Graphs and Illustrations can contribute a lot to the success of a scientific paper. In this course we will discuss different ways to use graphs in our research.
Handout
Here is a preliminary version of the handout.
Topics
  1. Introduction
  2. Graphs with ggplot2
  3. More graphs with ggplot2
  4. Nominal data
  5. Continuous data, distributions
  6. Continuous data, causal relations, other problems
  7. (Lattice)
Literature
  • William S. Cleveland, “The Elements of Graphing Data”, AT&T Bell Laboratories, New Jersey, 1994.
  • Deepayan Sarkar, “Lattice — Multivariate Data Visualization with R”. Springer, New-York, 2008.
  • Edward Tufte, “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information”. Bertrams. 2001.
  • Hadley Wickham, “ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis (Use R!)”. Springer, New-York, 2016.
Software
You should try all the examples on your own computer. You should have an up-to-date version of R installed. We will also use the following libraries: aplpack, car, Ecdat, directlabels, dplyr, Hmisc, ggplot2, gridExtra, ggmosaic, ggthemes, ks, lattice, latticeExtra, MASS, mgcv, plotrix, pwt10, reshape2, tidyr, vcd.