cm013 2015-10-20 Tuesday overview

This is the last normal class meeting before the STAT 545 –> STAT 547 transition (Thursday is guest lecture from Tamara Munzner).

HW update:

• HW02 marks have been sent out.
• HW03 marking underway. We’ve put 3 TAs on this to do it faster.
• HW04 peer review open. Finish that sometime tomorrow, Wednesday.
• HW05 will be the last homework of 545. It will be a revised mashup of 2014 HW05 + HW06. Proposed due date: Monday October 26. It is posted here and is due Wednesday 2015-10-28.

We revisit a variety of practical figure-making topics. Will pick from here:

• Do’s and don’ts of making effective graphs
• R Graph Catalog, a visual, clickable index of 100+ figures + ggplot2 code to make them
• Using colors in R
• Taking control of qualitative colors in ggplot2`
• Secrets of a happy graphing life
• Writing figures to file
• Multiple plots on a page