Week 8: Polishing Your Charts
This week, we will learn some techniques for adding polish to your charts. We will start choosing colors and fonts more carefully, and we will also annotate our charts with informative text. The readings below discuss some concepts to consider when making these design choices as well as some of the technical details for how to implement them in R.
Read these articles:
- R4DS: 28 - Graphics for communication
- Healy: 8 - Refine your plots
- Wilke: 21 - Multi-panel figures
- The patchwork package
Watch this video:
The Glamour of Graphics - William Chase
Optional readings:
- Check out this tool for simulating color blindness.
- This site tells you everything you should know about fonts: practicaltypography.com
- How to make a multi-panel figure with a shared legend.
- PIMP my Rmd
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