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ggplot Introduction - Colours and Scales (Video 2)

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Dated: October 2020

Author: Sam Dumble

A series of videos talking through why the ggplot2 library in R is a great choice for producing graphs and data visualisations, and walking through the different key components - data, aesthetics, geometries, facets, scales and themes.In this video we'll talk about the different ways to incorporate colours within ggplots, and look at how the scale functions work. Useful links referenced in this video: ggplot2 cheat sheet: https://github.com/rstudio/cheatsheets/raw/master/data-visualization-2.1.pdf R Graphics Cookbook: https://r-graphics.org/ R Colour Chart: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~tzheng/files/Rcolor.pdf Colour Brewer: https://colorbrewer2.org/

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