Uploaded October 2014 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
A tutorial on how to build a scatterplot graph in R and refining it using Illustrator, utilizing the crime in the US dataset described in Chapter 6 of the book Visualize This by Nathan Yau. The chapter is called Visualizing Relationships. Disclaimer: I am not a programmer and my descriptions and terminology are probably off here and there. The viewer is encouraged to consult the original book and other sources on R on the web. In the example I show how to build a key (legend) for the graph by adding fake state rows with round numbers. This technique does not work for a tree map because the new rows would change the totals in the dataset. Go to the tree map tutorial to see how I built the key in that example. The book Visualize This is used as a textbook in my Information Design: Data Visualization class at San Francisco State University. In my tutorial RStudio is used as a gentler interface for design students with minimal programming experience.
A tutorial on how to build a scatterplot graph in R and refining it using Illustrator, utilizing the crime in the US dataset described in Chapter 6 of the book Visualize This by Nathan Yau. The chapter is called Visualizing Relationships. Disclaimer: I am not a programmer and my descriptions and terminology are probably off here and there. The viewer is encouraged to consult the original book and other sources on R on the web. In the example I show how to build a key (legend) for the graph by adding fake state rows with round numbers. This technique does not work for a tree map because the new rows would change the totals in the dataset. Go to the tree map tutorial to see how I built the key in that example. The book Visualize This is used as a textbook in my Information Design: Data Visualization class at San Francisco State University. In my tutorial RStudio is used as a gentler interface for design students with minimal programming experience.
