Webinar: Data Visualization with R Studio

As part of the Horizon Europe Project Infra4NextGen, AUSSDA – The Austrian Social Science Data Archive hosted a webinar on Data Vizualisation in R and Jupyter for social science researchers, MA and PhD students. In the first part of the webinar, participants learn the basics of visualizations, understand the criteria for good science graphics, get to know the process of visualizing data, and learn more about the role of colours and fonts. The second part of the webinar introduces ggplot2 and its functions to create state-of-the-art plots following the principles from part one of the webinar.

After completing this webinar, participants are able to use ggplot2 to visually communicate their research results. They understand the basic purpose of data visualizations and increase their visual literacy. Attendees will be able to perceive, interpret and comprehend all sorts of different visualizations and create these visualizations for their own research. After completing this webinar, participants are able to:

• Use ggplot2 to visually communicate their research results
• Know the basic purpose of data visualizations and increase their visual literacy
• Perceive, interpret and comprehend all sorts of different visualizations and
• Create these visualizations for their own research.