© Ryan Wade 2020
R. WadeAdvanced Analytics in Power BI with R and Pythonhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5829-3_1

1. The Grammar of Graphics

Ryan Wade1 
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Indianapolis, IN, USA
 

Data visualization has always been a very important part of statistics. It gives statisticians a way to share their findings with others in a concise and relatively easy-to-understand way. Given the fact that R is a programming language built by statisticians for statisticians, the R community has made a considerable effort to ensure that R users are able to effectively create visualizations to help them tell their data stories.

Arguably, the most popular R package for data visualization is the ggplot2 package. This package was created by Hadley Wickham1 and is based on ...

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