Short Live Online Course – 4th Edition
October 15th-17th, 2025
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In this short course, students will learn to build and customise ggplot graphics. The ggplot2 package is built upon the Grammar of Graphics of Leland Wilkenson. Wilkenson described how all quantitative data visualisations share common component elements. Learning this grammar enables efficient construction (or modification of) of professional graphics.
This course will teach the core elements (data, aesthetics, and geometries) as well as more advanced topics of information communication and styling (annotation, themes, and facets). Class exercises will cover common visualisation tasks such as rescaling axes, managing legends, reordering categories, and highlighting data elements of special interest.
Participants are encouraged to bring data and graph ideas based on their own work.
Dr. Ashton Drew is owner of data consulting firm KDV Decision Analysis LLC and an R Studio Certified Tidyverse and Shiny instructor.
Places are limited to 16 participants.
Basic knowledge of R is required.
Participants need to have a current install of both R and RStudio on their machines.
Online live sessions on October 15th-17th, 2025.
From 13:00 to 18:00 (Madrid time zone)
Total course hours: 15
In the live sessions we will combine online lectures with hands-on computational exercises, in R.
Live sessions will be recorded. However, attendance to the live sessions is required to obtain the course certificate.
This course will be delivered in English.
Dr. Ashton Drew
KDV Decision Analysis LLC
United States of America
