tidytuesday VS cheatsheets

TidyTuesday is a weekly data cleaning project where a new, interesting data source is linked to each week: https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday

For R, I don't have specific resources, but I remember I started out with doing tidytuesdays challenge (https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday).

Tidy Tuesday has data and links to more data. The nice thing about those data sets is that you can search for what other people did with the data on social media (e.g. Twitter).

Dataset: https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/master/data/2022/2022-11-01

What you're describing is contributing to open source. Some things I'd suggest doing: - learn some git first - create GitHub account and create at least a practice repo - look at learning community-related repos, like Tidy Tuesday - follow R "power" users, people associated with RStudio, and similar folks on social media. Those folks will sometimes mention projects aimed at beginners.

Data: TidyTuesday April 4

The Tidy Tuesday git repo has a lot of example datasets to work with.

I mostly use ggplot2 in R for visualisations which means that The R Graph Gallery is my starting point for inspiration. The best thing to do is start with a simple idea that tells a story, and one of the best guys out there that does this is Cedric Scherer. He is involved a bit with the TidyTuesday project which I wish I had more time to play around with, and is a great starting point for developing a library of vis techniques.

If you're an R user, stringr + its cheatsheet gets you very close to remembering what to do without needing to look further!

For more information on how to use ggplot2 and create charts consult the ggplot2 official page or the ggplot2 cheat graphic.

I'd suggest you have a look at cheatsheets (or download them from GitHub) if you want to get to know your way around a package or set if functions, it saves you a lot of time.

You could use geom_hline and geom_vline, geom_abline, or geom_segment for this. (The ggplot cheat sheet is very useful for answering these kinds of questions, BTW.)

I can't say for sure because I don't know what your ultimate aim is for your visualization. Check out the cheat sheet for ggplot2 here.

Finally just do your analysis. You should also should give a try and see the cheat sheet for data importing on the tidyverse package.

That said, when I’m trying to come up with an interesting way to visualize data, I find the ggplot cheat sheet very helpful: https://github.com/rstudio/cheatsheets/raw/main/data-visualization-2.1.pdf

Here's a cheat sheet: https://github.com/rstudio/cheatsheets/blob/main/strings.pdf

The cheat sheet of the stringr package should give you good overview of string manipulation/ regex in R.

I would very highly recommend that rather than trying to get started by translating an existing graph, you check out some documentation about ggplot first. If nothing else, the ggplot cheat sheet from RStudio should help explain what the component parts of the code are, and that might help you figure out what you actually want to do.