# Interactive Data Visualization with plotly in R
This is a DataCamp course: Learn how to use plotly in R to create interactive data visualizations to enhance your data storytelling.
## Course Details
- **Duration:** ~4h
- **Level:** Beginner
- **Instructor:** Adam Loy
- **Students:** ~19,440,000 learners
- **Subjects:** R, Data Visualization, Data Science and Analytics
- **Content brand:** DataCamp
- **Practice:** Hands-on practice included
- **Prerequisites:** Introduction to the Tidyverse
## Learning Outcomes
- R
- Data Visualization
- Data Science and Analytics
- Interactive Data Visualization with plotly in R
## Traditional Course Outline
1. Introduction to plotly - In this chapter, you will receive an introduction to basic graphics with plotly. You will create your first interactive graphics, displaying both univariate and bivariate distributions. Additionally, you will discover how to easily convert ggplot2 graphics to interactive plotly graphics.
2. Styling and customizing your graphics - In this chapter, you will learn how to customize the appearance of your graphics and use opacity, symbol, and color to clarify your message. You will also learn how to transform axes, label your axes, and customize the hover information of your graphs.
3. Advanced charts - In this chapter, you move past basic plotly charts to explore more-complex relationships and larger datasets. You will learn how to layer traces, create faceted charts and scatterplot matrices, and create binned scatterplots.
4. Case Study - In the final chapter, you use your plotly toolkit to explore the results of the 2018 United States midterm elections, learning how to create maps in plotly along the way.
## Resources and Related Learning
**Resources:** Video game sales and ratings dataset (dataset), Wine datasets (dataset), Midterm election datasets (dataset)
**Related tracks:** Interactive Data Visualization in R
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Interactive Data Visualization with plotly in R
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Updated 08/2024RData Visualization4 hr15 videos54 Exercises4,600 XP14,426Statement of Accomplishment
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Build Interactive Data Visualizations in plotly
Interactive graphics allow you to manipulate plotted data to gain further insights. As an example, an interactive graphic would allow you to zoom in on a subset of your data without the need to create a new plot. In this course, you will learn how to create and customize interactive graphics in plotly using R.Get Started Using plotly
You’ll start the course with an introduction to plotly and a view of different plots you can make using this R package, including histograms, bar charts, bivariate graphics, scatterplots, and boxplots. You’ll also learn how to convert a ggplot2 scatterplot into plotly so that you can enhance your graphics and dashboards.Explore Creating plotly Plots and Dashes
The next two chapters of the course show you how you can customize your graphics to build the perfect dashboard, and even add hover-over information to add detail and depth. Then you’ll move on to advanced charts that visualize complex relationships and larger datasets. By completing this course, you’ll be able to create manual and automated faceting, binned scatterplots, and your first scatter plot matrix (SPLOM).Create Visualizations with Real-World Data
The final chapter of this course uses your new-found plotly skills to visualize the results of the 2018 US elections. You’ll create the first interactive plotly dash in your portfolio and learn how to create maps using this valuable data visualization tool.Prerequisites
Introduction to the Tidyverse1
Introduction to plotly
In this chapter, you will receive an introduction to basic graphics with plotly. You will create your first interactive graphics, displaying both univariate and bivariate distributions. Additionally, you will discover how to easily convert ggplot2 graphics to interactive plotly graphics.
2
Styling and customizing your graphics
In this chapter, you will learn how to customize the appearance of your graphics and use opacity, symbol, and color to clarify your message. You will also learn how to transform axes, label your axes, and customize the hover information of your graphs.
3
Advanced charts
In this chapter, you move past basic plotly charts to explore more-complex relationships and larger datasets. You will learn how to layer traces, create faceted charts and scatterplot matrices, and create binned scatterplots.
4
Case Study
In the final chapter, you use your plotly toolkit to explore the results of the 2018 United States midterm elections, learning how to create maps in plotly along the way.
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FAQs
What is plotly?
plotly is an R package that provides an interface to the plotly JavaScript graphing library, meaning you can create interactive web-based graphics entirely in R. It is a great choice for creating interactive graphics because you can create a wide variety of graphics in multiple formats; you can execute your code in the console and interact with your graphic entirely in the viewer pane, or you could deploy your graphic to the web as a shiny app.
Is R good for data visualization?
R is an excellent language for data visualization. It also has several useful data visualization libraries, such as ggplot2 and Shiny, which both work well with plotly.
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