Learn how to fit use annotations and colors in your ggplot plots! Join our workshop on Dataviz with R and ggplot: Using colour and annotations for effective story telling which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series.
Here’s some more info:
Title: Dataviz with R and ggplot: Using colour and annotations for effective story telling
Date: Thursday, April 20th, 18:00 – 20:00 CEST (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)
Speaker: Cara Thompson, Cara is a freelance data consultant with an academic background, specialising in dataviz and in “enhanced” reproducible outputs. She lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is passionate about maximising the impact of other people’s expertise.
Description: If we’re passionate about our data and the patterns we’ve found, a key part of our job is to find effective ways of communicating what we’ve discovered. Intuitive and compelling data visualisations are a great way to draw attention to our main story, and illustrate some of the details.
In this workshop, we’ll talk about how we can make use of colour, fonts and a few other tricks to make it easier for readers to understand and remember our main story and make our plots publication-ready. We’ll be using R and ggplot to create, modify and annotate the plots we discuss, but the principles apply regardless of the tools you use to plot your data.
Attendees are encouraged to bring along a plot of their own (which doesn’t need to be made with ggplot!) so that think about how best to apply the principles to their own context – and for a chance for some live feedback during our Q&A session.
Minimal registration fee: 20 euro (or 20 USD or 800 UAH)
How can I register?
- Go to https://bit.ly/3wvwMA6 or https://bit.ly/3PFxtNA and donate at least 20 euro. Feel free to donate more if you can, all proceeds go directly to support Ukraine.
- Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)
- Fill in the registration form, attaching a screenshot of a donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after donation). You can also submit a plot made by you for a chance for getting feedback!
If you are not personally interested in attending, you can also contribute by sponsoring a participation of a student, who will then be able to participate for free. If you choose to sponsor a student, all proceeds will also go directly to organisations working in Ukraine. You can either sponsor a particular student or you can leave it up to us so that we can allocate the sponsored place to students who have signed up for the waiting list.
How can I sponsor a student?
- Go to https://bit.ly/3wvwMA6 or https://bit.ly/3PFxtNA and donate at least 20 euro (or 17 GBP or 20 USD or 750 UAH). Feel free to donate more if you can, all proceeds go to support Ukraine!
- Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)
- Fill in the sponsorship form, attaching the screenshot of the donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after the donation). You can indicate whether you want to sponsor a particular student or we can allocate this spot ourselves to the students from the waiting list. You can also indicate whether you prefer us to prioritize students from developing countries when assigning place(s) that you sponsored.
If you are a university student and cannot afford the registration fee, you can also sign up for the waiting list here. (Note that you are not guaranteed to participate by signing up for the waiting list).
You can also find more information about this workshop series, a schedule of our future workshops as well as a list of our past workshops which you can get the recordings & materials here.
Looking forward to seeing you during the workshop!