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- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- What You Will Learn
- The Right Frame of Mind
- How to Use This Book
- Conventions
- Before You Begin
- 1 Look at Data
- 1.1 Why Look at Data?
- 1.2 What Makes Bad Figures Bad?
- 1.3 Perception and Data Visualization
- 1.4 Visual Tasks and Decoding Graphs
- 1.5 Channels for Representing Data
- 1.6 Problems of Honesty and Good Judgment
- 1.7 Think Clearly about Graphs
- 1.8 Where to Go Next
- 2 Get Started
- 2.1 Work in Plain Text, Using RMarkdown
- 2.2 Use R with RStudio
- 2.3 Things to Know about R
- 2.4 Be Patient with R, and with Yourself
- 2.5 Get Data into R
- 2.6 Make Your First Figure
- 2.7 Where to Go Next
- 3 Make a Plot
- 3.1 How Ggplot Works
- 3.2 Tidy Data
- 3.3 Mappings Link Data to Things You See
- 3.4 Build Your Plots Layer by Layer
- 3.5 Mapping Aesthetics vs Setting Them
- 3.6 Aesthetics Can Be Mapped per Geom
- 3.7 Save Your Work
- 3.8 Where to Go Next
- 4 Show the Right Numbers
- 4.1 Colorless Green Data Sleeps Furiously
- 4.2 Grouped Data and the “Group” Aesthetic
- 4.3 Facet to Make Small Multiples
- 4.4 Geoms Can Transform Data
- 4.5 Frequency Plots the Slightly Awkward Way
- 4.6 Histograms and Density Plots
- 4.7 Avoid Transformations When Necessary
- 4.8 Where to Go Next
- 5 Graph Tables, Add Labels, Make Notes
- 5.1 Use Pipes to Summarize Data
- 5.2 Continuous Variables by Group or Category
- 5.3 Plot Text Directly
- 5.4 Label Outliers
- 5.5 Write and Draw in the Plot Area
- 5.6 Understanding Scales, Guides, and Themes
- 5.7 Where to Go Next
- 6 Work with Models
- 6.1 Show Several Fits at Once, with a Legend
- 6.2 Look Inside Model Objects
- 6.3 Get Model-Based Graphics Right
- 6.4 Generate Predictions to Graph
- 6.5 Tidy Model Objects with Broom
- 6.6 Grouped Analysis and List Columns
- 6.7 Plot Marginal Effects
- 6.8 Plots from Complex Surveys
- 6.9 Where to Go Next
- 7 Draw Maps
- 7.1 Map U.S. State-Level Data
- 7.2 America’s Ur-choropleths
- 7.3 Statebins
- 7.4 Small-Multiple Maps
- 7.5 Is Your Data Really Spatial?
- 7.6 Where to Go Next
- 8 Refine Your Plots
- 8.1 Use Color to Your Advantage
- 8.2 Layer Color and Text Together
- 8.3 Change the Appearance of Plots with Themes
- 8.4 Use Theme Elements in a Substantive Way
- 8.5 Case Studies
- 8.6 Where to Go Next
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- 1 A Little More about R
- 2 Common Problems Reading in Data
- 3 Managing Projects and Files
- 4 Some Features of This Book
- References
- Index




