Color Palette Choice and Customization in R and ggplot2 workshop

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Learn how to use color palettes and customize your ggplot plots, while contributing to charity! Join our workshop on Color Palette Choice and Customization in R and ggplot2   to improve your ggplot plots which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series. 
Here’s some more info: 
Title: Color Palette Choice and Customization in R and ggplot2
Date: Thursday, January 26th, 17:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone) 
Speaker: Dr. Cédric Scherer, independent data visualization designer, consultant, and instructor and graduated computational ecologist from Berlin, Germany. Cédric has created visualizations across all disciplines, purposes, and styles and regularly teaches data visualization principles, the R programming language, and ggplot2. Due to regular participation in social data challenges such as #TidyTuesday, he is now well known for complex and visually appealing figures, entirely made with ggplot2.

Description: In this workshop, we will first cover the basics of color usage in data visualization. Afterward, we will explore different color palettes that are available in R, discuss which extension packages are exceptional in terms of palettes and functionality, and learn how to customize palettes and scales in ggplot2.
Minimal registration fee: 20 euro (or 20 USD or 750 UAH)


How can I register?

  • 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).

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?
  • 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!


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Dariia Mykhailyshyna

PhD Student in Economics at the University of Bologna

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