R data visualization cookbook : over 80 recipes to analyze data and create stunning visualizations with R / / Atmajitsinh Gohil

• Autore: Gohil Atmajitsinh
• Pubblicazione: Birmingham, England : , : Packt Publishing, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (236 p.)
• Disciplina: 519.502855133
• Soggetto topico: R (Computer program language); Computer animation
• Note generali: Includes index.; "Quick answers to common problems"--Cover.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: A Simple Guide to R; Installing packages and getting help in R; Data types in R; Special values in R; Matrices in R; Editing a matrix in R; Data frames in R; Editing a data frame in R; Importing data in R; Exporting data in R; Writing a function in R; Writing if else statements in R; Basic loops in R; Nested loops in R; The apply, lapply, sapply, and tapply functions; Using par to beautify a plot in R; Saving plots; Chapter 2: Basic and Interactive Plots; Introduction ; Introducing a scatter plotScatter plots with texts, labels, and lines; Connecting points in a scatter plot; Generating an interactive scatter plot; A simple bar plot; An interactive bar plot; A simple line plot; Line plot to tell an effective story; Generating an interactive Gantt/timeline chart in R; Merging histograms; Making an interactive bubble plot; Constructing a waterfall plot in R; Chapter 3: Heat Maps and Dendrograms; Introduction; Constructing a simple dendrogram; Creating dendrograms with colors and labels; Creating a heat map; Generating a heat map with customized colors ; Generating an integrated dendrogram and heat mapCreating a three-dimensional heat map and a stereo map; Constructing a tree map in R; Chapter 4: Maps; Introduction; Introducing regional maps; Introducing choropleth maps; A guide to contour maps; Constructing maps with bubbles; Integrating text with maps; Introducing shapefiles; Creating cartograms; Chapter 5: The Pie Chart and its Alternatives; Introduction; Generating a simple pie chart; Constructing pie charts with labels; Creating donut plots and interactive plots; Generating a slope chart ; Constructing a fan plot ; Chapter 6: Adding the Third DimensionIntroduction; Constructing a 3D scatter plot; Generating a 3D scatter plot with text; A simple 3D pie chart; A simple 3D histogram; Generating a 3D contour plot; Integrating a 3D contour and a surface plot; Animating a 3D surface plot; Chapter 7: Data in Higher Dimensions; Introduction; Constructing a sunflower plot; Creating a hexbin plot; Generating interactive calendar maps; Creating Chernoff faces in R; Constructing a coxcomb plot in R; Constructing network plots; Constructing a radial plot; Generating a very basic pyramid plot ; Chapter 8: Visualizing Continuous DataIntroduction; Generating a candlestick plot; Generating interactive Candlestick plots; Generating a decomposed time series; Plotting a regression line; Constructing a box and whiskers plot; Generating a violin plot; Generating a quantile-quantile plot (QQ plot); Generating a density plot; Generating a simple correlation plot; Chapter 9: Visualizing Text and XKCD-style Plots; Introduction; Generating a word cloud; Constructing a word cloud from a document; Generating a comparison cloud; Constructing a correlation plot and a phrase tree ; Generating plots with custom fonts
• Sommario/riassunto: If you are a data journalist, academician, student or freelance designer who wants to learn about data visualization, this book is for you. Basic knowledge of R programming is expected.
• Titolo autorizzato: R data visualization cookbook
• ISBN: 1-78398-951-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813334903321
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