November 2018
Beginner to intermediate
420 pages
10h 4m
English
book
Hands-On Data Science with R
by Doug Ortiz, Vitor Bianchi Lanzetta, Nataraj Dasgupta, Ricardo Anjoleto Farias
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- Quiz-tion: There is a theory that strongly influenced the packages ggplot2 and ggvis. This theory is known as:
- String theory
- Best polygon
- Grammar of Graphics
- None of the above
- Quiz-tion: Pick the false statement about interactive graphics.
- They are appropriate for web pages
- They don't ever allow the audience to zoom in and out
- The ggvis and plotly packages allow users to build interactive plots
- The rCharts and googleVis packages allow users to build interactive plots
- Quiz-tion: Which of the following statements is false?
- Overplotting can sometimes be softened by a technique called alpha transparency
- Data manipulation and preprocessing is never required before drawing a plot
- Plots made by ggplot2 cannot be made interactive, not ...
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