Grammar of Graphics

Chapter : Grammar of Graphics

#Grammar of Graphics established the building blocks for solid, creative and meaningful data visualizations

#There are two categories of elements
#Major Elements
#Minor Elements

#Major Elements
#Data
#Aesthetics
#Geometries
#Facets

#Minor Elements
#Statistics
#Coordinates
#Themes

#Data
#The dataset being plotted.

#Aesthetics
#The scales or metrics onto which we map our data.

#Geometries
#The visual elements used for our data.

#Facets
#Plotting small multiples or Groups by which we divide our data.

#Need of Faceting
#When we are working with dataset there would be a set of categorical variables and a lot of numerical variables. Plotting all of them on to a single graph may lead to chaos that is why we need to facet our data.

#Statistics
#Reepresentation of data to aid understandiing.

#Co ordinates
#The space onto which data is plotted.

#Themes
#All non - data links.