Lecture 4: Biological Data Visualization (06/10/2024)

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What we will learn

Data plotting in R Overview

• Visualization is an essential aspect of data analysis to help come up with better insights and communicate results

• R has powerful packages for data plotting (e.g. ggpubr, ggplot2)

• Different plot types are used depending on the purpose of the analysis and the data types we want to visualize
  

  • numerical consists of numbers, can be measured
    
  • categorical consists of characters, a category/type
    

What we will Practice

Using iris dataset (see overview here),

            • scatterplot
            • boxplot
            • barplot
            • histogram, density