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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
Welcome, logistics, course materials, and additional resources
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Welcome to the Glamour of Graphics course!
Logistics
Each lesson in this course has a video. You'll watch the video and then, for most lessons, complete a Your Turn exercise.
One of the coolest features of the video hosting system we use is that you can search the audio within each video. To do so, just click the search button and enter your text.
In addition to the individual lesson videos, we've put all of the videos in the course together below. You can use the search bar to search across all videos. Try it out!
Course Materials
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Some of the lessons have exercises. Take a look right below the video to find the instructions.
Questions
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Additional Resources
Where relevant, we've added "Learn More" resources below each lesson. We hope these are helpful as learn to make glamorous graphics!
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