Datavisualizationisoneofthemostimportantpartofdatascience.Manybooksandcoursespresentacatalogueofgraphicsbuttheydon'tteachyouwhichchartstouseaccordingtothetypeofthedata.Inthisbook,westartbypresentingthekeygraphicsystemsandpackagesavailableinR,includingRbasegraphs,latticeandggplot2plottingsystems.Next,weprovidemorethan200practicalexamplestocreategreatgraphicsfortherightdatausingeithertheggplot2packageandextensionsorthetraditionalRgraphics.Withthisbook,you'lllearn:-Howtoquicklycreatebeautifulgraphicsusingggplot2packages-Howtoproperlycustomizeandannotatetheplots-Typeofgraphicsforvisualizingcategoricalandcontinuousvariables-Howtoaddautomaticallyp-valuestoboxplots,barplotsandalternatives-Howtoaddmarginaldensityplotsandcorrelationcoefficientstoscatterplots-Keymethodsforanalyzingandvisualizingmultivariatedata-Rfunctionsandpackagesforplottingtimeseriesdata-Howtocombinemultipleplotsononepagetocreateproduction-qualityfigures.
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