This is the R script repository of the "Data Visualization 2: Practical Data Visualization with R" course in the 2020/2021 Winter term, part of the MSc in Business Analytics at CEU. For the previous edition, see 2019/2020 Spring.
2 x 3 x 100 mins on March 10 and 17:
- 13:30 - 15:00 session 1
- 15:00 - 15:30 break
- 15:30 - 17:00 session 2
- 17:00 - 17:30 break
- 17:30 - 19:00 session 3
This class will take place online. Find the Zoom URL shared in Moodle.
Please find in the syllabus
folder of this repository.
Please bring your own laptop and make sure to install the below items before attending the first class:
- Install
R
from https://cran.r-project.org - Install
RStudio Desktop
(Open Source License) from https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download - Register an account at https://github.com
- Enter the following commands in the R console (bottom left panel of RStudio) and make sure you see a plot in the bottom right panel and no errors in the R console:
install.packages(c('ggplot2', 'gganimate', 'transformr', 'gifski'))
library(ggplot2)
library(gganimate)
ggplot(diamonds, aes(cut)) + geom_bar() +
transition_states(color, state_length = 0.1)
Optional steps I highly suggest to do as well before attending the class if you plan to use git
:
-
Bookmark, watch or star this repository so that you can easily find it later
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Install
git
from https://git-scm.com/ -
Verify that in RStudio, you can see the path of the
git
executable binary in the Tools/Global Options menu's "Git/Svn" tab -- if not, then you might have to restart RStudio (if you installed git after starting RStudio) or installed git by not adding that to the PATH on Windows. Either way, browse the "git executable" manually (in somebin
folder look for theegit
executable file). -
Create an RSA key (optionally with a passphrase for increased security -- that you have to enter every time you push and pull to and from GitHub). Copy the public key and add that to you SSH keys on your GitHub profile.
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Create a new project choosing "version control", then "git" and paste the SSH version of the repo URL copied from GitHub in the pop-up -- now RStudio should be able to download the repo. If it asks you to accept GitHub's fingerprint, say "Yes".
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If RStudio/git is complaining that you have to set your identity, click on the "Git" tab in the top-right panel, then click on the Gear icon and then "Shell" -- here you can set your username and e-mail address in the command line, so that RStudio/git integration can work. Use the following commands:
$ git config --global user.name "Your Name" $ git config --global user.email "Your e-mail address"
Close this window, commit, push changes, all set.
Find more resources in Jenny Bryan's "Happy Git and GitHub for the useR" tutorial if in doubt or contact me.
Will be updated from week to week.
- Warm-up exercise and security reminder: 1.R
- Intro / recap on R and ggplot2 from previous courses by introducing MDS: 1.R
- Scaling / standardizing variables: 1.R
- Simpson's paradox: 1.R
- Intro to
data.table
: 1.R - Anscombe's quartett 1.R
Suggested reading:
- Introduction to
data.table
data.table
FAQ- Database-like ops benchmark
- Hadley Wickham: ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis. https://ggplot2-book.org/
Homework:
- Load the
nycflights13
package and check what kind of datasets exist in the package, then create a copy of flights dataset into adata.table
object, calledflight_data
. - Which destination had the lowest avg arrival delay from LGA with minimum 100 flight to that destination?
- Which destination's flights were the most on time (avg arrival delay closest to zero) from LGA with minimum 100 flight to that destination?
- Who is the manufacturer of the plane, which flights the most to CHS destination?
- Which airline (carrier) flow the most by distance?
- Plot the monthly number of flights with 20+ mins arrival delay!
- Plot the departure delay of flights going to IAH and the related day's wind speed on a scaterplot! Is there any association between the two variables? Try adding a linear model.
- Plot the airports as per their geolocation on a world map, by mapping the number flights going to that destionation to the size of the symbol!
If in doubt about the results and outputs, see this example submission prepared by Misi.
Submission: prepare an R markdown document that includes the exercise as a regular paragraph then the solution in an R code chunk (printing both the code and its output) and knit to HTML or PDF and upload to Moodle before March 17 noon (CET).
File a GitHub ticket.