Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
ggplot2 - Coggle Diagram
ggplot2
How
-
-
-
Aesthetics aes(): Aesthetics pertaining to the geometric and statistical objects, like colour, size, shape, location, and transparency
-
-
-
-
Visual themes theme(): The overall visual elements of a plot, like grids & axes, background, fonts, and colours.
-
What
ggplot2 is a plotting package that provides helpful commands to create complex plots from data in a data frame.
It provides a more programmatic interface for specifying what variables to plot, how they are displayed, and general visual properties.
Who
it is used by different people, mainly in data science, and business intelligence.
Where
we use ggplot when we want to visualize our data,
either in a dashboard for simplifying decision making or to simply transform raw data to visualizations that are simple to grasp
Why
Data visualization provides a quick and effective way to communicate information in a universal manner using visual information.
But it can also provide others benefits mainly:
the ability to absorb information quickly, improve insights and make faster decisions
-
-
an easy distribution of information that increases the opportunity to share insights with everyone involved
an increased ability to act on findings quickly and, therefore, achieve success with greater speed and less mistakes.
When
it was first released by Hadley Wickham, Winston Chang
The date of release was 10 June 2007