Prepare

Due: January 23, 2025

Learning objectives

• Identify the importance of graphics in communicating information
• Define the layered grammar of graphics
• Utilize the grammar of graphics to conceptually define Minard’s graph of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia

Preparations

📖 Read

• ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis (ggplot2-book): Mastery
• The grammar of graphics

⌨️ Do (if you have not already):

• Log in to Cornell’s GitHub at https://github.coecis.cornell.edu/. You already have an account created based on your Cornell NetID.
• One of the following:

  • Access RStudio Workbench using your Cornell NetID and password

    Click the “New Session” button on the top of the page. Leave all the settings on their default state and click “Start Session”. If this is your first time accessing RStudio Workbench for the course, it may take a couple of minutes to prepare your session. Please be patient. When you start a session in the future, your container will already be prepared and it should start within 15 seconds.

  • Install R/RStudio/Git locally.