Resources

For now, this page is just an information dump of potential data viz resources. I’d imagine this page having more structure in the future.

Texts

• ggplot2, the book, by Hadley Wickham
• Fundamentals of Data Visualization, by Claus O. Wilke
• Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction, by Kieran Healy
• Modern Data Visualization with R, by Robert Kabacoff

Websites

• The R Graph Gallery
• UW Interactive Data Lab

R Packages

General Data Viz

• ggplot2
  • ggplot2 Extensions
    • ggforce
    • ggmagnify
    • ggfx
  • Awesome ggplot2 (curated list of ggplot2 related stuff)
• patchwork
• cowplot

Spatial Data

• sf
• terra
• leaflet

Network Data

• igraph, go-to package for networks in R?
• ggraph, extension of ggplot2 for networks.
• tidygraph, a tidy API for network manipulation.

Spatial Data

• Geocomputation with R, e-book
• Spatial Data Science, e-book
• A Gentle Introduction to GIS, by QGIS
• Drawing beautiful maps programmatically…

Spatial Data Sources

US Federal

• The National Map
• US Census Bureau TIGER/Line Shapefiles
  • tigris (R package)

US States

• Idaho Geospatial Office

Other Sources

• Natural Earth (great for World data)
  • rnaturalearth
• USAboundaries (includes historical boundaries)
  • A sample analysis using USAboundaries

Networks/Graph Theory

• A Simple Introduction to Graph Theory, by Brian Heinhold

Just Fun

• Mapping Middle Earth