{"repo":"cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends","clone":"git clone https://github.com/cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends.git","description":"Friends don't let friends make certain types of data visualization - What are they and why are they bad.","language":"R","stars":7097,"topics":["data-visualization","r"],"license":"MIT","category":"analytics","readme_excerpt":"Friends Don't Let Friends Make Bad Graphs Friends don't let friends make certain types of data visualization - What are they and why are they bad. Author: Chenxin Li, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University. Contact: lichen27@msu.edu @chenxinli2.bsky.social This is an opinionated essay about good and bad practices in data visualization. Examples and explanations are below. The Scripts/ directory contains .Rmd files that generate the graphics shown below. It requires R, RStudio, and the rmarkdown package. R: R Download RStudio: RStudio Download rmarkdown can be installed using the install packages interface in RStudio Table of contents 1. Friends Don't Let Friends Make Bar Plots For Mean Separation 2. Friends Don't Let Friends Make Violin Plots for Small Sample Sizes 3. Friends Don't Let Friends Use Bidirectional Color Scales for Unidirectional Data 4. Friends Don't Let Friends Make Bar Plot Meadow 5. Friends Don't Let Friends Make Heatmap without Reordering Rows & Columns 6. Friends Don't Let Friends Make Heatmap without Checking Outliers 7. Friends Don't Let Friends Forget to Check Data Range at Each Factor Level 8. Friends Don't Let Friends Make Network Graphs without Trying Different Layouts 9. Friends Don't Let Friends Confuse Position and Length Based Visualizations 10. Friends Don't Let Friends Make Pie Charts 11. Friends Don't Let Friends Make Concentric Donuts 12. Friends Don't Let Friends Use Red/green and Rainbow for Colo","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/cxli233","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}