Creating compelling visualisations in R with ggplot2

A code-along workshop for AFBI, exploring principles of dataviz design and applying them using ggplot2 and a few extra packages

This page was built for those who were at the session, to allow me to share resources and code that they can apply to their own plots. But if you landed on this page and weren’t at the session, feel free to build on the code you find!

Happy plotting!

Resources

• Extracting colours from images: imagecolorpicker.com
• Manipulating colours: monochromeR
• Colour palette checker: vis4.net/palettes
• Text contrast checker: colourcontrast.cc/

Code snippets

• A bar graph, counting penguins
• A line and dot plot, looking at names over time
• The raw data plot I’m building in the slides
• theme_afbi and the afbi tooltip css