Course description
This course provides the basics of data visualization in R & Python. Course outline: Visual encodings of data. Grammar of Graphics. Exploratory data analysis with R and Python. Grammar of Graphics, Data Visualization, Plotting, Mapping.
Prerequisites
Basics of R & Python (reading data from source, data wrangling, and data analysis).
Course tools
R (dplyr, tidyr, ggplot2), Python (pandas, matplotlib, seaborn).
About the lecturer
Andriy Gazin
The former head of analytics and infographics department at Korrespondent (2010-2014) and Novoe Vremya (2014-2015) weekly magazines. Former data journalist and analyst at Texty.org.ua. Running blog about infographics and dataviz – textura.in.ua, providing training programs on data analysis and visualizations. Working with open data policy and research.