PhD students' forum (Doktorandenforum)

Linguistic Data Visualization with R

Organization: Sarah Jablotschkin (Universität Hamburg) and Melissa Müller (Universität Hamburg)
Contact: Sarah Jablotschkin (sarah.jablotschkin"AT"uni-hamburg.de)
Speaker: Natalia Levshina (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)
Date: 03.03.2020, 09.00 - 16.00
Location: Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, west wing, room 121
Language: English
Maximal number of seats: 30
Registration: Please register via the registration form of the main conference.

Description

This interactive hands-on workshop addresses PhD students and students. It offers an introduction to basic concepts of descriptive statistics (types of variables, measures of central tendency and dispersion) and different possibilities of visualizing the data with R. We will discuss the visualization of categorical, continuous and discrete variables with the basic plotting functions in R and with the help of ggplot2, a popular add-on package for creation of high-quality graphs. The list of graph types includes scatter plots, bar charts, box-and-whisker plots, histograms, dot charts, rug plots, violin plots, pie charts, density plots, interactive 3D plots, correlograms, mosaic plots, etc.

In the course of the workshop there will be the possibility for participants to present their own research data and discuss ideas for visualization. If you're interested, in addition to your registration please contact Sarah Jablotschkin or Melissa Müller until January 31st, 2020, and hand in a short abstract (approx. 1 page) describing your research. If there are too many applicants already your presentation might be rejected.

Prior knowledge in R is not assumed.

The number of seats is limited. Registrations will be considered in their chronological order (first come, first serve).

Schedule

Time	Topics
9:00-11:00	Visualization of Numeric Data
11:00-11:30	Coffee break
11:30-13:30	Visualization of Categorical Data
13:30-14:30	Lunch break
14:30-16:00	Discussion panel