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Overview of this book

If you are a data journalist, academician, student or freelance designer who wants to learn about data visualization, this book is for you. Basic knowledge of R programming is expected.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. A Simple Guide to R

Installing packages and getting help in R

Data types in R

Special values in R

Matrices in R

Editing a matrix in R

Data frames in R

Editing a data frame in R

Importing data in R

Exporting data in R

Writing a function in R

Writing if else statements in R

Basic loops in R

Nested loops in R

The apply, lapply, sapply, and tapply functions

Using par to beautify a plot in R

Saving plots

2. Basic and Interactive Plots

Introduction

Introducing a scatter plot

Scatter plots with texts, labels, and lines

Connecting points in a scatter plot

Generating an interactive scatter plot

A simple bar plot

An interactive bar plot

A simple line plot

Line plot to tell an effective story

Generating an interactive Gantt/timeline chart in R

Merging histograms

Making an interactive bubble plot

Constructing a waterfall plot in R

3. Heat Maps and Dendrograms

Introduction

Constructing a simple dendrogram

Creating dendrograms with colors and labels

Creating a heat map

Generating a heat map with customized colors

Generating an integrated dendrogram and a heat map

Creating a three-dimensional heat map and a stereo map

Constructing a tree map in R

4. Maps

Introduction

Introducing regional maps

Introducing choropleth maps

A guide to contour maps

Constructing maps with bubbles

Integrating text with maps

Introducing shapefiles

Creating cartograms

5. The Pie Chart and Its Alternatives

Introduction

Generating a simple pie chart

Constructing pie charts with labels

Creating donut plots and interactive plots

Generating a slope chart

Constructing a fan plot

6. Adding the Third Dimension

Introduction

Constructing a 3D scatter plot

Generating a 3D scatter plot with text

A simple 3D pie chart

A simple 3D histogram

Generating a 3D contour plot

Integrating a 3D contour and a surface plot

Animating a 3D surface plot

7. Data in Higher Dimensions

Introduction

Constructing a sunflower plot

Creating a hexbin plot

Generating interactive calendar maps

Creating Chernoff faces in R

Constructing a coxcomb plot in R

Constructing network plots

Constructing a radial plot

Generating a very basic pyramid plot

8. Visualizing Continuous Data

Introduction

Generating a candlestick plot

Generating interactive candlestick plots

Generating a decomposed time series

Plotting a regression line

Constructing a box and whiskers plot

Generating a violin plot

Generating a quantile-quantile plot (QQ plot)

Generating a density plot

Generating a simple correlation plot

9. Visualizing Text and XKCD-style Plots

Introduction

Generating a word cloud

Constructing a word cloud from a document

Generating a comparison cloud

Constructing a correlation plot and a phrase tree

Generating plots with custom fonts

Generating an XKCD-style plot

10. Creating Applications in R

Introduction

Creating animated plots in R

Creating a presentation in R

A basic introduction to API and XML

Constructing a bar plot using XML in R

Creating a very simple shiny app in R

Index

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R Data Visualization Cookbook

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