Lab-6: These Roses have been Painted !!

Why is a Raven like a Writing Desk?

Introduction

Ah…ggplot ! All those wonderful pictures and graphs, that Alice might have relished!

Metaphors, aesthetics, geometries…and pictures !! ggplot seems to equate ravens to writing desks in its syntax…and out come graphs!!

And colours: Wes Anderson! Tim Burton! The Economist… and many others!!

References

  1. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYcQcwUfo8c

  2. Wickham and Grolemund, R for Data Science, ggplot chapter: https://r4ds.had.co.nz/data-visualisation.html

  3. CMDLineTips, 10 Tips to Customize Text Color, Font, Size in ggplot2 with element_text(), https://cmdlinetips.com/2021/05/tips-to-customize-text-color-font-size-in-ggplot2-with-element_text/

  4. CMDLineTips, How to write a simple custom ggplot theme from scratch, https://cmdlinetips.com/2022/05/how-to-write-a-simple-custom-ggplot-theme-from-scratch/

  5. Asha Hill @ mode.com, 12 Extensions to ggplot2 for More Powerful R Visualizations, https://mode.com/blog/r-ggplot-extension-packages/

  6. Emil Hvitfeldt, ggplot Trial and Error, https://www.emilhvitfeldt.com/post/2018-06-12-ggplot2-trial-and-error-us-trade-data/

Fun Stuff

  1. Yihan Wu, Mapping ggplot geoms and aesthetic parameters, ( An interactive view of which aesthetic parameters work with which ggplot geom!! ) https://www.yihanwu.ca/post/geoms-and-aesthetic-parameters/

  2. https://www.theartstory.org/artist/kandinsky-wassily/

Arvind V.
Arvind V.
Faculty Member, SMI, MAHE

This course will give Art and Design students a foundation in the principles and practice of data visualization using R.

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