Introduction to Multivariate Data Visualization

An introduction to data visualization that focuses on the explorative analysis of multivariate (tabular) data and uses interactive examples in R.

How to run the interactive tutorial locally?

1. Download and install R and RStudio Desktop.
2. Clone or download the repository.
3. Open mv-vis.Rmd in RStudio and click on Run Document to compile and run the interactive tutorial. On first execution, you may need to install required packages, especially learnr, ggplot2, and GGally.
4. The tutorial opens in a new RStudio window. You can click Open in Browser on the top left to view the tutorial in the default Web browser.

View a non-interactive version of the tutorial or cite it

A PDF version without any interactions is available via Zenodo:

Fabian Beck & Shahid Latif. (2022, May 6). Introduction to Multivariate Data Visualization. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6523081

Dataset

The dataset used throughout the tutorial is based on free material from GAPMINDER.ORG (licensed under CC-BY LICENSE).

About

This tutorial has been written by Fabian Beck and Shahid Latif, with technical support by Denis Artjuch. We thank DataCampus UDE, a data literacy initiative by University of Duisburg-Essen, for partly funding the project.

Contact

Prof. Dr. Fabian Beck

University of Bamberg

An der Weberei 5, 96047 Bamberg, Germany

fabian.beck(at)uni-bamberg.de