Web design and visualization

13 April 2026

Reading

• Kieran Healy, Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction
  • Chapter 7: Draw Maps
  • Chapter 8: Refine your plots
• Nicola Rennie, The Art of Data Visualization with ggplot2: The TidyTuesday Cookbook (CRC Press, 2025), https://nrennie.rbind.io/art-of-viz/.
  • Pick a chapter to read through. Follow along with the code and/or get inspiration on the types of visualizations you can make.

Assignment

• Practice making maps with Healy, Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction and with your own data in a Quarto document.
• Practice with networks using the SNiGB associates data in a Quarto document.

Activities

• Data visualization.
• Making tables in R.
• Accessibility.

Resources