STAT 451, Day 12

More Tools to Visualize Data

Introduction

Today we are going to add a few more tools to the list given in Chapter 3.

  • Bubble Charts
  • Word Clouds
  • Google Charts from R
  • Plot.ly
  • Plotting maps with R and shape files
  • Introduction to ggplot2

Bubble Charts

Try the FlowingData Tutorial on Bubble Charts.

How to Make Bubble Charts

Word Clouds

Making word clouds in R is usually done with text mining.

See

wordcloud.Rmd Try it.

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