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Advanced Visualizations

As you saw in Chapter 19, Exploratory Data Analysis, you can create very professional-looking graphs using the ggplot2 package and its extensions. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to create advanced and attractive custom graphs, with a special focus on circular barplots. Circular barplots are particularly useful for showing relationships in data that are periodic or cyclical in nature, providing a visually appealing and space-efficient way to display such patterns. They are ideal for comparing categories that are parts of a whole, such as hours in a day or months in a year, where the circular layout emphasizes the cyclical nature.

The visualization of such plots will be done exclusively using R programming, as it ...

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