Visual Analytics LIS 4317

 For this visualization, I decided to use ggnet2 in R studio to complete my Social Network analysis. Using the code provided, I was able to create the following graph.  I found an example of using ggnet2 on plotly.com  that uses randomized values are either vowels or constants to create the social network analysis. To make the graph more appealing, I added more random variables, changed the color of the graph and added a title with pink defining if a value is a vowel and black defining if it is a constant. I understand that a legend should be added to this visualization, but  I was not able to figure out how to do so using ggnent2. 

For this assignment, I decided to visualize the Dot-dash plot in ggplot2 example because I have a preference for scatter plots and enjoy learning about more ways to utilize ggplot2. Code:  ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg)) + geom_point() + geom_rug() +    theme_tufte(ticks=F) + xlab("Car weight (lb/1000)") + ylab("Miles per gallon of fuel") +    theme(axis.title.x = element_text(vjust=-0.5), axis.title.y = element_text(vjust=1)) + ggtitle("wt vs mpg") The code provided in the instructions outputs the following visual.  Source: http://motioninsocial.com/tufte/#introduction

In this Module, we are taught about time series, time series models can be used to visualize past and predict future events. When creating a time series model you are looking for any outstanding changes or outliers in the visualization. Yau points out the issue with using discrete points on visualization as it can be difficult to read when there are multiple points. Each type of visualization has its own issues, so when choosing which to use it is situational for the type of data being used. For my graphs, I used the given hotdogs dataset.  Using the barplot function does create a good visualization, but there are some issues, for one, there is no key with the code given so the reader will have to understand the code to get the meaning of the colors. In addition, more lines of code are required as we had to define what the colors meant in another line of code. Creating a similar chart using ggplot2 provides much better results, with one line of code we can create an even better cha...

For this visualization, I decided to use the dataset iris to see how the sepal length and with correlates to the petal length. I decided to make the color be based on the species so that we could easily tell the difference between the irises. This visualization shows that the smaller the petal length, typically the wider the sepal with and the shorter the sepal length. We can also see that this is a characteristic of the setosa iris. We can also see that the opposite occurs with the other irises versicolor and virginca where the sepal length and petal length is longer, but the sepal width is usually shorter.  I decided to use ggplot2 to create this visualization. This is one of the best ways to show visual multivariate graphs because of how simple the graph is. The design is aligned as it is sharp, has repetition as it is consistent, has good contrast with the species defining the color, proximity by putting all of this information on one graph, and balance with the structure.