R-Ladies Cambridge (English)– Beautifully annotated: enhancing your ggplots with text– Cara Thompson

Applying design principles to the text in our graphs, and making text an integral part of the visualisation, can make all the difference between a busy plot and a plot which communicates a clear story.

In this session, we will explore:
— how to be less dependent on annotations (I know… trust me!)
— how to use colours and fonts to draw attention to key elements in annotations
— how to format text on the fly to change fonts, colours, alignments, and text sizes using `{ggtext}`
— how to add arrows to your plots to highlight key data points or important patterns
— a few useful packages and ggplot tricks when it comes to annotations

Cara is a freelance data consultant with an academic background, specialising in dataviz and in “enhanced” reproducible outputs. She lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is passionate about maximising the impact of other people's expertise.
Website: https://www.cararthompson.com