Martynas Jočys
Business Intelligence consultant at Macaw
Martynas is a Business Intelligence consultant working at Dutch company Macaw, consulting and providing Visual Storytelling trainings for clients worldwide. He believes that reports and dashboards should not only provide valuable data but should also be visually appealing and intuitive to use.
Workshop: Introduction to data visualization with R and ggplot2. Why is it so loved by dataviz enthusiasts?
ggplot2 is one of the most powerful charting libraries used by many media outlets, data visualization practicioners and even artists around the world. Despite being a library for R programming language - which means coding - it still attracts creative people who want to produce bespoke visuals.
During this hands-on practical session you will learn what is the secret of ggplot2 appeal, how it works and how to bend it for really creative results!
Join this session even if you don't know any coding but would like to try - together we will produce a couple of charts!
Make sure you have R and RStudio installed beforhand, not to spend time on it during the session: