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Good_Sage t1_j8rhve2 wrote

What are the most famous or well known methods to proper visualise data? I am willing to learn different methods or use different websites and explore various options. I am sorry if this question has been asked before but I really want to know better ways to show data besides normal charts. (Please link me to previous threads if this has been mentioned before)

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PsychologicalEgg9377 t1_j942krp wrote

I'm from an academic background and used to use a lot of R. There's a library called ggplot2 that is very formal and structured. Many other plotting libraries and methods are very disjoint, but ggplot2 gives you a good foundation because it's based on a lot of plotting theory. It depends if you program or not.

I found this PDF on datacamp that is very high level. I'm not sure I agree with all of them, but it's probably a good start.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.datacamp.com/email/other/Data+Visualizations+-+DataCamp.pdf

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Good_Sage t1_j943ql3 wrote

Thanks! I will take a look at that. So I am assuming there are no particular website that can do all the plotting and you would have to program that? I am good at programming but definitely not at the high level. This might as well be a long procrastinated project for me when I get some free time. If there are some more libraries (because there seem to be alot of cool graphs in this subreddit) please do let me know!

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PsychologicalEgg9377 t1_j945pha wrote

The two most common stacks I see are Python+Pandas+Seaborn or R+ggplot2.

Python has the added advantage there's a big industry demand and would be more likely to find a job with python experience.

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