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u/balloonanimalfarm ยท 4 pointsr/AskProgramming

Check out D3.js [here's a link to their gallery].(https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery) I'm fairly certain I've seen D3 used in big publications like NYT or WSJ; you might recognize some of the visualizations in the gallery.

What exactly does your job entail? If you're just building the visualizations, I'd stick to JavaScript mostly. Here's a great free intro course. The web is probably the best visualization platform there is.

If you actually want to do some data exploring and quick and dirty visualizations, I'd recommend learning some R. R is often used in statistics, but can be good for doing quick analysis and even some beautiful visualizations. (For instance, you have a crap-ton of data, and want to do a quick correlation between number of trailer-homes and voting history in the US then throw it on a map.) If you want a good intro to stats and how to use R check out Crawley's Statistics an Introduction Using R. Crawley's writing style is awesome so it makes things fun. If you end up using R, I highly recommend just using RStudio to do your analysis, it's got a very nice interface and lets you keep track of all the visualizations you made and data you've processed.

One more thing: check out /r/dataisbeautiful they have a lot of inspiring visualizations and occasionally tell you the tools they used.

Cheers!

u/280nm ยท 1 pointr/biology

The way I've learnt is.

  1. I had a module in my MSc. that was R focused but I understand that is not super useful but in regards to my second point I thought its only best to point out I had some directed teaching.

  2. I learn by having a specific problem to solve. I.e. I have this data set to analyse, what do I actually have to do to analyse it. So I work out I need to, say for arguments sake, make a histogram and then I usually just google the problem or consult this book.

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Statistics-An-Introduction-Using-R/dp/0470022981

    That book, combined with some one-on-one time with one of the PIs at my lab (who uses that book as his bible) were very useful for my introduction. I'm not a master at R but I've written a few for loops etc.