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Summary Data Viz with gtExtras

The gtExtra package is an extension of the gt package and has a whole lot of really useful functions for creating summary tables and data visualizations. The code and video below run through a number of examples but one of…

Barbie and Oppenheimer Graph Themes

Want to make your R graphs really stand out? The Theme Park graph themes () give you a range of movie and TV theme sets, including the latest hit movies, Barbie and Oppenheimer. In the video and code below I…

Subset your data in R with the slice function

The slice functions from the Tidyverse are a handy set of R functions for taking subsets of your data (like filter but for maximums, minimums, random samples, etc). In this video I demonstrate a number of ways to use slice…

How to Import Excel Sheets to R

There are a number of ways to import Excel sheets into R. My favourite is tidyverse package readxl. In this video I demonstrate a number of tips and tricks to use this package more effectively. Subscribe to stay up to…

Easy Summary Tables in R with gtsummary

The gtsummary package lets you produce summary statistics for your numeric and categorical variables, formatted into a neat table. You can include p-values for pairwise comparisons and also split your summary across the categories of one of your covariates. Subscribe…

Adding Themes to your ggplots in R

Themes are a convenient way change the appearance of ggplots that you have created in R. In the video and code below I provide examples from a variety packages, showing themes that range from professional and serious, like the Wall…

Raincloud Plots in R

The raincloud plot is a data visualization which is a combination of a density curve of the distribution, and box and whisker plot, and a histogram style dot plot. By showing the density curves these graphs provide the viewer with…

Beautiful Regression Assumption Plots in R

The performance package in R lets you produce regression assumptions tests and plots. In this video I use the performance package in R to produce a set of beautiful and useful plots to check the assumptions of a linear regression.…

Animating ggplots with gganimate

animated gapminder ggplot

The gganimate package lets you add animation to your ggplots in R. In this video I demonstrate how to recreate animated bubble plots like the site and how to save them as gif files that you can use in…