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The shape of data
- Chart types
- How to choose a chart
- Visual metaphor
- Memorability vs. speed of comprehension
- Identifying your audience
- Data encoding process
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Layout
- Grids, borders, lines
- Axes
- Grids, borders, lines, and axes examples and exercises
- Alignment
- White space
- Charts in larger layouts
- Alignment, white space, and layout of multiple plots examples and exercises
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Typography
- What is typography and why does it matter?
- Typographic hierarchy
- Font styles
- Good fonts and where to find them
- Using custom fonts in R examples and exercises
- ggtext examples and exercises
- Pairing fonts
- Typography beyond charts
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Color
- Color palettes
- Color examples and exercises
- Color models
- HCL color palettes in ggplot examples and exercises
- The color wheel
- Color and emotion
- The eyedropper tool and color inspiration
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Special topics
- Legends
- Accessibility
- Combining ggplot with a vector editor
- Annotations
- Resizing plots for export
- Finding inspiration
The Glamour of Graphics
Grids, borders, lines
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The vaccination chart seen in the lesson can be found here. The inflation bar chart is here.
There are some good tips for adding lines to ggplots on the Cookbook for R website.
To get inspiration, check out the visual work from Axios, Bloomberg, FiveThirtyEight, and the New York Times.
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glenn althor
January 23, 2023
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