DATA INSIGHTS & VISUALIZATION
Session 9
Exercises
Pablo Monfort Instituto de Empresa
Session's description
We will use this session for 2 purposes:
- study other advanced visualizations in R.
- build interactive graphs in R
Let me describe the new tasks:
Task 1. Research in Google about these types of visualizations:
- wordclouds
- Chord diagrams,
- Sankey diagrams,
- others
Explain and describe in 4 brief paragraphs different real situations
where every of these 4 graphs could be used and useful.
Task 2. Download your assigned dataset for the Data Viz competition and
create 2 interactive graphs for the dataset using the new commands
in R explained below.
Task 3. Create one of the graphs you found in task 1 with your Viz
competitions dataset 2
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Session's theory: the plotly library
# Script to build interactive graphs using R (libraries plotly and htmltools)
# Execute line by line this script and adapt it to solve the task 2.
# Remember! If some of the libraries are not installed, you will obtain error. Install it in that case!
# 1. We create the normal ggplot graphs
library(ggplot2)
a = ggplot(diamonds,aes(x=price)) + geom_histogram()
a
b = ggplot(diamonds,aes(x=cut)) + geom_bar()
b
# 2. We transform them into an interactive version
library(plotly)
a2= plotly::ggplotly(a)
b2= plotly::ggplotly(b)
# 3. We save them in an html document
# (you can save in the html document 1, 2 or as many graphs as you want!)
library("htmltools")
htmltools::save_html(list(a2,b2), "My graph.html")
# Check now your working directory. This html file has been created there!
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Deadlines
Task 1: Group task.
One submission per group.
Send the PDF document using the link in Blackboard
Task 2: Single task.
One submission per person.
Send the R script and the created graph.
Use the other link in Blackboard
Task 3: Optional.
One submission per group.
Send the PDF document using the link in Blackboard for task 1
Deadline:
May 10th, 11:59PM
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