Visualization with R

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  • Instructor:  Gurpreet Matharoo
  • Level: Beginner
  • Duration: 2 hours
  • Helpers: TBD
  • Date:  December 4, 2025 | 1:00 - 3:00 pm (Atlantic)
  • Prerequisite: None
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COURSE DESCRIPTION

This workshop is aimed at providing insight into the data through data visualization. While working with large sets of numbers, it is often quite useful to display the information graphically. Often, we use basic graph types such as histograms, scatter plots, bar charts, boxplots etc.

 

We will use R as our programming language for this workshop. Basic knowledge of R is recommended, although it is not mandatory. The learning objectives would include:

- Create simple scatterplots, histograms, and box plots.

- Compare the plotting features of base R and ggplot2 package.

- Plotting with ggplot2

- Plotting time series data

- Arranging and Exporting plots.


SETUP REQUIREMENTS
  • See the instructions to install R and RStudio here. Users can work on any platform as long as they have installed R and RStudio.  

Meet your teaching team

Gurpreet Matharoo

Instructor

Research Consultant

Ph.D. Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Gurpreet joined ACENET in 2016 and is based at St. Francis Xavier University (St. FX). A physicist who began his research career studying amorphous materials, supercooled liquids, and the glass transition, Gurpreet was then involved in several original and inter-related lines of research addressing climate change and studying climate of the past. He's since been involved in a variety of interdisciplinary computational research areas, including physics, chemistry, earth sciences and mechanical engineering. Gurpreet's most recent passion is neuroscience research, whereby he is in an active collaboration with researchers studying brain dynamics. This collaboration led to a joint paper on the effects of ongoing brain processes on pain. Gurpreet is fluent in coding in Fortran, C++, C and has a solid understanding of MATLAB. He has also taught undergraduate courses in the physics, engineering, and earth sciences departments at St. FX.