Guest speaker: Hadley Wickham

Today we had Hadley Wickham, the creator of GGPLOT2, Skype in and talk to us about his work, his thoughts on data visualization, and answer questions. Hadley brought up several resources during class. Feel free to check them out:

• Julia
• Tidy data
• %>% operator and “magrittr” package
• GGPLOT2 extensions
• ggrepel
• Practice safe stats
• Dr. Wickham’s github-hosted book on R
• Dr. Wickham’s github page

Up next: A guest lecture by Dr. Robert Kosara from Tableau about visual storytelling!