Session 1: Introduction to data wrangling.

Topics:

• R objects and packages
• Reading data into R
• Basic data wrangling with dplyr
• Reshaping data
• Basic management of data types
  • text data (string)
  • categorical (factor)
  • date data

Session 2: Understanding grammar of graphics

Topics:

• Foundation of grammar of graphics
• Dataset and mappings
• Geometries
• Statistical transformation and plotting distribution
• Position adjustment and scales
• Coordinates and themes
• Facets and custom plots

Session 3: Creating plots and ggplot2 extensions

Topics:

• APA style plots
  • Line plot
  • Box plot
  • Bar plot
  • Scatter plot
• Visualizing data
  • Lollipop plot
  • Dumbbell plot
  • Bar graph
  • Bubble plot
  • World cloud
  • Heat map

Session 4: Challenge: recreating graphics

• In progress...