Agenda

Introduction to graphics in R
Introduction to the lattice package - Multipanel conditioning - The "trellis"" object and its properties: the formula, data, conditioning and various plots/tiles in one diagram - Dimension and physical layout - Grouped displays - Annotation: Captions, labels, and legends
Graphics for Univariate Distributions
Density Plot - Histograms - Normal Q–Q plots - The empirical CDF (Cumulative Distribution Function) - Box-and-whisker plots - Strip plots - Working with small and large datasets
Graphics for Multivariate Distributions
Displaying Multiway Tables: Dot plots, Bar charts, Visualizing categorical data - Scatter Plots and Extensions - Trivariate Displays: Three-dimensional scatter plots, Surfaces and two-way tables
Advanced Graphical Parameters of the lattice Package
The parameter system: Themes and devices - Plot Coordinates and Axis Annotation: Axis annotations (ticks and labels), Limits and aspect ratio, Scale components and the axis function, Labels and Legends - Data Manipulation: Combining data sources, Subsetting, Ordering levels of categorical variables, Manipulating the "trellis" Object
Introduction to graphics using ggplot2
Datasets - Basic use - Colour, size, shape and other aesthetic attributes - Plot geometries - Components of the layered ggplot2 grammar: Layers, Scales, Coordinate system, Faceting
Visualization in ggplot2
Layers - Overall layering strategy - Aesthetic mappings - Creating a plot - Basic plot types - Displaying distributions - Dealing with overplotting - Surface plots - Drawing maps - Revealing uncertainty - Statistical summaries - Annotating a plot
Optimizing plots for publication and presentation
Themes - Customising scales and geoms - Multiple plots on the same page
Trainer

Marco Skulschus (born in Germany in 1978) studied economics in Wuppertal (Germany) and Paris (France) and wrote his master´s thesis about semantic data modeling. He started working as a lecturer and consultant in 2002.
Publications
- Grundlagen empirische Sozialforschung ISBN 978-3-939701-23-1
- System und Systematik von Fragebögen ISBN 978-3-939701-26-2
- Oracle PL/SQL ISBN 978-3-939701-40-8
- MS SQL Server - T-SQL Programmierung und Abfragen ISBN 978-3-939701-69-9
Projects
- He works as an IT-consultant and project manager. He developed various Business Intelligence systems for industry clients and the public sector. For several years now, he is responsible for a BI-team in India which is mainly involved in BI and OLAP projects, reporting systems as well as statistical analysis and Data Mining.
Research
He led several research projects and was leading scientist and project manager of a publicly funded project about interactive questionnaires and online surveys.
