5.4 Expanding your data visualization

Although these can be useful plots, I often do most of my data visualizations in other platforms. For most of my work, I use Excel because I find it pretty easy to make beautiful graphs. Here’s an example of a visualization I made in Excel⁴:

For some more complicated figures, I turn to the ggplot2 package in R. Here’s an example of a visualization I made in R⁵:

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4. This comes from Wanzer et al. (2020) Promoting intentions to persist in computing: An examination of six years of the EarSketch program↩︎

5. This comes from Wanzer (2020) What is evaluation? Perspectives of how evaluation differs (or not) from research↩︎