This is part of a series of workshops for Love Data Week, an annual festival highlighting topics, opportunities and services relevant to data in research. Love Data Week 2024 will feature a Love Data Fair on the afternoon of Valentine’s Day, February 14th, in Mackenzie Room, Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center.

This workshop is a gentle introduction to working with the ggplot2 visualization library in R for those who have moderate programming experience in R. If you know how to work with datasets (variables, matrices, dataframes) and functions in R, but you have never created figures beyond maybe a few base R visualizations (using the plot, hist, barplot functions), then this class is a good fit for you! By the end of this workshop, you will have learned the syntax of ggplot2, how to modify and customize graph aesthetics, how to generate 1D and 2D plots, and how to save your figures to your computer. Time permitting, we will explore a few extra features such as faceting, custom colors, and themes!

Register here to attend. Spots are open to current Stanford Affiliates only and will be offered on a first-come, first-serve basis. Space is limited, with a waitlist when all spots are full. 

Time: 1pm - 4pm (Pacific Standard Time)

Date: Thursday, February 15, 2024

Lead Instructor: Dr. Alma Parada, Librarian (Earth Sciences & Life Sciences)