Data Visualization

Course Description

This course provides basics of data visualization in R & Python. Course outline: Visual encodings of data. Grammar of Graphics. Exploratory data analysis with R and Python.

Course topics

Grammar of Graphics, Data Visualization, Plotting, Mapping

Course tools

R (dplyr, tidyr, ggplot2), Python (pandas, matplotlib, seaborn).

Prerequisites

Basics of R & Python (reading data from source, data wrangling and data analysis).

Lecturer

Mr. Andriy Gazin
Data Visualization Specialist

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.

Fields of interests: Statistics, Data Analysis & Visualization, Mapping, R, ggplot2, Python, Open Data

Contacts:

[email protected]
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twitter.com/AndriyGazin
www.facebook.com/textura.in.ua
www.linkedin.com/in/andriygazin