Claus Wilke, a professor from UT Austin has just announced a new book on data visualization, one of the important aspects of data science or science for that matter. The book is currently titled “Fundamentals of Data Visualization” and will be published by O’Reilly.
An early version of the book is available freely online http://serialmentor.com/dataviz/.
Just like other cool books data science with R, this book is also entirely written with R Markdown and all the visualizations are made with ggplot2.
Very excited to announce my latest project, a book on data visualization. Approximately half of the book is written, and all completed chapters are now available as online preview. #rstats #datavizhttps://t.co/PFHFJtkmwO pic.twitter.com/gn1lAGZ21i
— Claus Wilke (@ClausWilke) January 23, 2018
This book does not teach R and assumes you know a bit of R. The main focus of the book data visualization. As the author says
The book is meant as a guide to making visualizations that accurately reflect the data, tell a story, and look professional.
And a quick look at the book tells that this data visualization book is a fantastic resource on all things visualizations. Even with a little glance, you can easily learn how to make your figures better.
If you are interested data science, Claus Wilke’s earlier R packages are a must. He has made two beautiful R packages Cowplot that enables to combine multiple ggplots in a single plot and ggridges or joyplot. They both are excellent additions to your data science tool kit to do exploratory data analysis (EDA).
