R Visualizations - You Will Be Amazed!

Data Story Telling Using Intuitive and Creative Visualizations

With ever increasing volume of data, it is impossible to tell stories without visualizations. Data visualization is an art of how to turn numbers into useful knowledge. R Programming lets you learn this art by offering a set of inbuilt functions and libraries to build visualizations and present data.

Not all of the examples included are original. There is such a varierty of potential ways to tell a story using data, it is impossible for one person to introduce you to all the possibilities - but I will try! I often get side-tracked pursuing a graphic that catches my eye. I reproduce some of them below. When there is something really creative that I have not been able to prelicate in R, I provide the link for you.

Be sure to look at this often-referenced chart selection graphic. (© 2006 A. Abela - a.v.abela@gmail.com) It is very easy to start developing a plot without carefully considering which plot style to use first.

Visualizations File List - Examples

Name	Description	Date
*ggplot2 - The Graphics Package You Must Know*
tidyrggplot2explained.html	An introduction to tidying your data using tydr and using ggplot	7/2/2017
*R Mapping Examples*
USLifeExpectancy.html	Simple mapping example evaluating life expectancy in the US.	6/30/2017
*Interactive Data Story Telling - Shiny*
My first Shiny application	Shiny apps are hosted on shared servers on shinyapps.io. It may take a minute or two for the application to wake from sleeping. This application is based on Census data.	7/2/2017
My Shiny App Leveraging NLP	This application was part of my final project featuring Natural Language Processing is support of the Coursera - Johns Hopkins Course Data Science Specialization. Remember, Shiny apps are hosted on shared servers on shinyapps.io. It may take a minute or two for the application to wake from sleeping.	7/2/2017
*Other Visualizations*
GmiscTransitionPlot	There are some things you will plot daily, typically using ggplot2. But in the Gmisc package is s function called transitionPlot. This is something that you could share with anyone in your organization to show the change of state between classes. Start using this today to become a star!	7/4/2017
*External Visualization Gallery Links*
The R Graph Gallery	Plotly ggplot2 Library	Show me Shiny!
Shiny User Showcase	Top 50 ggplot2 Visualizations	ggplots Extensions to Explore