Machine Learning Using R

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Karthik Ramasubramanian and Abhishek SinghMachine Learning Using R10.1007/978-1-4842-2334-5_4

4. Data Visualization in R

Karthik Ramasubramanian¹  and Abhishek Singh¹

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New Delhi, Delhi, India

 

Data visualization is the process of creating and studying the visual representation of data to bring some meaningful insights. Michael Friendly’s 2009 paper titled “Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization,” provides the following overarching definition of information visualization:

Information visualization is the broadest term that could be taken to subsume all the developments described here. At this level, almost anything, if sufficiently organized, ...