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Colorblind-Friendly Color Maps for R (by sjmgarnier)
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R for data science: a book (by hadley)
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viridis
Posts with mentions or reviews of viridis.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-15.
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Scientific Colour Maps
I tend to think the continuous color palettes don't look very nice (no matter what the colors are) in various data visualizations. So I often prefer the color brewer discrete smaller sets, https://colorbrewer2.org/#type=sequential&scheme=BuGn&n=3
I use the viridis inferno on occasion as well, https://github.com/sjmgarnier/viridis, although sometimes it is too dark.
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Map: Zillow Home Prices Feb 2022, with year-over-year price growth (TN and US)
I do! That's why I used the Viridis color package for R, because it's explicitly optimized for colorblind people.
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The average area in England now has 19 cases per 100k people - look at how frosty the BBC case map is looking!
They use the viridis colour scheme. This is a widely used colour scheme for heatmaps, that has been purposely designed to be as accessible and useable as possible. Colour blindness, printing in black and white, etc.
r4ds
Posts with mentions or reviews of r4ds.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-24.
- Ask HN: Learning Maths from the Ground Up
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Any suggestions on where I can learn R studio for an affordable cost?
https://r4ds.hadley.nz is free and very good
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Help with Understanding data loading/cleaning in R.
R for Data Science teaches you the tidyverse packages, which makes data wrangling so much easier!
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Learning R & statistics
One of the best free resources is the R4DS book by Hadley Wickham. You should make sure you start with the in progress second edition. https://r4ds.hadley.nz/
- Trying to learn Rstudio
- Questions as incoming PhD political science student
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First R project
The first edition of R4DS is quite old now. Check out the soon to be released second edition: https://r4ds.hadley.nz/
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Is R dead?
R for Data Science (2nd Ed), the updated guide from Hadley Wickham
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[Career] Strong Mathematics Background, Limited "Technical" Background
The big skills gap you have is in practical data exploration and transformation, which will be a large part of any data-centric role. As much as people may have distaste for it, there is no avoiding data manipulation as critical foundational enabler of all inferential and predictive modeling work. SQL is the lingua franca here and well worth picking up the basics (joins, window functions, handling dates and times, etc.), plus learning how to implement similar transformations in R and Python. With appropriately transformed data, you then need to be able to visualize it effectively using tools like Tableau or ggplot2 in R. I would not necessarily seek courses or certificates in it but expect to be evaluated on them in technical interview screenings, so self-study accordingly. R for Data Science by Hadley Wickham is a great free resource for these topics for R.
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There’s a lot of data science books out there, any recommendations for must-reads?
I just looked and there is now a second edition! https://r4ds.hadley.nz/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing viridis and r4ds you can also consider the following projects:
awesome-R - A curated list of awesome R packages, frameworks and software.
swirl - :cyclone: Learn R, in R.
dplyr - dplyr: A grammar of data manipulation
fasteR - Fast Lane to Learning R!
ggplot2 - An implementation of the Grammar of Graphics in R
tidytuesday - Official repo for the #tidytuesday project
rmarkdown - Dynamic Documents for R
R-vs.-Python-for-Data-Science
scico - Palettes for R based on the Scientific Colour-Maps
lab02_R_intro - Vežbe 2: Uvod u R
ggplot2-book - ggplot2: elegant graphics for data analysis