Level up your plots: Using colour, text hierarchy and annotations to create compelling and memorable data visualisations

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RMedicine 2023 | A code-along workshop

Written by

Cara Thompson

Published

June 6, 2023

In this workshop, we explored the following four tips for creating compelling and memorable visualisations, and made the case for creating annotations in R to avoid this reaction when your colleague comes to tell you that they have managed to gather extra data:

Packages

To run the code in this workshop, you will need to install the following packages, which can all be installed from CRAN:

  • tidyverse
  • palmerpenguins
  • systemfonts
  • monochromeR
  • ggtext
  • geomtextpath

In addition you may wish to use {colorblindr} which can be installed from GitHub using remotes::install_github("clauswilke/colorblindr").

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Citation

For attribution, please cite this work as:
Thompson, Cara, and Cara Thompson. 2023. “Level up Your Plots: Using Colour, Text Hierarchy and Annotations to Create Compelling and Memorable Data Visualisations.” June 6, 2023. https://www.cararthompson.com/talks/rmedicine2023-workshop/.