A literacy-based approach to learning visualization with R’s ggplot2 package
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2022
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This recipe describes the process for delivering a 2-hour workshop on visualization in R using ggplot2. The workshop is designed to promote literacy around ggplot2 and data visualization creation. Over the course of the workshop, participants learn about the theory behind the ggplot2 package and its approach to visualization, the typical syntax used to create a visualization with ggplot2, and a few features for visualization design offered by ggplot2. The workshop combines conceptual material with hands-on exercises to build participants’ vocabulary, expose participants to the range of features available in ggplot2, and reinforce learning with repeated practice.
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Angela Zoss
Since December 2021, Angela has served as the Interim Head and now Head of the Assessment and User Experience Strategy (AUXS) Department. She provides leadership and direction for the Duke University Libraries’ strategy and practice of Assessment and User Experience, including developing, maintaining, and integrating user-focused web content, data, and discovery platforms.
From 2018 to 2021, Angela worked as the Assessment and Data Visualization Analyst in AUXS, offering support for special data projects and providing leadership and project management for a variety of teams related to library reporting, gathering user data, and making improvements to library spaces and services.
From 2012 to 2018, Angela worked as the Data Visualization Coordinator for Data and Visualization Services (now the Center for Data and Visualization Sciences). In that role she created many library workshops and short courses on visualization; consulted with students, researchers, and faculty members on research projects; and helped to introduce visualization concepts and tools into a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses.
Ph.D. in Information Science, Indiana University (2018)
M.S. in Communication, Cornell University (2008)
B.A. in Cognitive Science and Communication & Culture, Indiana University (2003)
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