This hands-on workshop provides an introduction to the popular ggplot2 R graphics package. It will cover how to create a wide variety of graphical displays in R, using techniques such as layering, mapping variables to aesthetics, working with scales, faceting, and themes. 

Sponsored by the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences (IQSS).

Prerequisites: Participants should be familiar with importing and saving data, data types (e.g., numeric, factor, character), and manipulating data.frames in R.

Bring your own laptop with R (https://www.r-project.org/) and RStudio (https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/) installed.

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