Workshop: "Data Visualization with R" (13.01.2025, 10.00 a.m. to 03.00 p.m. (s.t.) & 15.01.2025, 09.00 a.m. to 12.00 a.m. (s.t.))

This workshop is organised by BAGSS.

Course Outline:

The aim of the workshop is to provide an accessible introduction into the use of R for data
visualization. R’s ggplot2 package and its extensions provide a flexible framework for data visualization and they are widely used in both academia and industry.
Topics covered:

• Data visualization basics (very briefly)
• Introduction to the most common plot types (barcharts, scatterplots, line charts, etc.)
• Introduction to less common plot types (maps, sankey diagrams, dumbbell plots)
• How to visualize results of different research outputs
• Creating unique themes
• Programming with ggplot2

The workshop is practice-oriented, which means that we will have some smaller and bigger
coding challenges to exercise the ggplot muscle memory early on. If you have your own
dataset and are looking for ideas on possible ways to represent it, let me know and we can
take a collective look at it.

Prerequisites:

• You should have a working R (version 4.3.1+) and RStudio (version 2023.03.0+) installed.
• Basic familiarity with R is expected.
• Some statistical knowledge is also assumed (but not necessary).

Date & time:

• Monday, January 13, 2025, 10.00 a.m. to 03.00 p.m. (s.t.)
• Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 09.00 a.m. to 12.00 a.m. (s.t.)

Location: BAGSS, Feldkirchenstra?e 21, 96050 Bamberg, Room FG1/00.06

Instructor: Dániel Kovarek, PhD, European University Institute

Dániel Kovarek is a Research Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the Central European University. He studies political behavior at the voter and the elite level; his expertise lies in the intersection of political geography and distributive politics. Previously, Daniel has been teaching a wide variety of graduate-level courses on quantitative methods, applied statistics, experiments, programming, research design, as well as comparative politics. His research has appeared in Democratization, Research & Politics and The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, among others.

Course units: 8

Registration: Please register via courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de by November 27, 2024.