<p>We are excited to announce the next book in our R-Ladies Book Club will be Fundamentals of Data Visualization: A Primer on Making Informative and Compelling Figures by Claus Wilke!</p> <p>We're also excited to announce that Claus will be doing a companion talk, "Practical ggplot2", as a follow-up in June! This talk will be focused on getting into the code and the "how" of building some of the figures in the book. RSVP here: <a href="https://www.meetup.com/rladies-austin/events/260426142/" class="linkified">https://www.meetup.com/rladies-austin/events/260426142/</a></p> <p>Topics covered in this book are:<br/>* Explore the basic concepts of color as a tool to highlight, distinguish, or represent a value<br/>* Understand the importance of redundant coding to ensure you provide key information in multiple ways<br/>* Use the book’s visualizations directory, a graphical guide to commonly used types of data visualizations<br/>* Get extensive examples of good and bad figures<br/>* Learn how to use figures in a document or report and how employ them effectively to tell a compelling story</p> <p>Note that this book is not specific to any single language (and doesn't deep-dive the code used to generate the figures). If you're interested in learning more about how to create the figures using ggplot2 and R, please check out Claus's follow-up talk: <a href="https://www.meetup.com/rladies-austin/events/260426142/" class="linkified">https://www.meetup.com/rladies-austin/events/260426142/</a></p> <p>Please join us for a discussion over a beer or coffee/tea!</p> <p>FINDING THIS BOOK</p> <p>This book is available free online at <a href="https://serialmentor.com/dataviz/" class="linkified">https://serialmentor.com/dataviz/</a>.</p> <p>A hard copy of this book will be released on April 15th -- here's a link to order the book on Amazon: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Data-Visualization-Informative-Compelling/dp/1492031089" class="linkified">https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Data-Visualization-Informative-Compelling/dp/1492031089</a>.</p>