LISPOP Workshop on Reproducible Research: Data Visualization with R

Course Description

This workshop will showcase the data visualization capabilities of R with an emphasis on the expansive and highly customizable graphics that can be produced with the ggplot2 package. The session will cover commonly produced graphs to communicate scientific results (bar plots, histograms, scatter plots, cumulative incidence curves) and touch on additional packages for spatial visualisation and interactive plots. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to wrangle and prepare a data set for visualization, and thoughtful presentation and communication of data will be discussed.

Prerequisites

Attendees should have R and RStudio installed on their local machines and know-how of reading data into the working environment.

Instructor Biography

Julia Ma is a Data Scientist at Precision-Analytics, a Montreal-based consultancy. She has extensive experience supporting clinical and academic research, working with data that range from electronic medical records to provincial-level administrative data. Julia’s work spans observational and experimental studies including quality improvement initiatives, health economic analyses, and predictive modelling. She holds a Master’s degree in Epidemiology from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.