Instant Heat Maps in R How-to
Learn how to design heat maps in R to enhance your data analysis
Published on 13. January 2025
72 pages
978-1-78216-565-1 (ISBN)
Description
Learn how to design heat maps in R to enhance your data analysis
Key Features
Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results
Create heat maps in R using different file formats
Learn how to make choropleth maps and contour plots
Generate your own customized heat maps and add interactivity for displaying on the web
Book DescriptionR has grown rapidly over the years to become one of the most versatile and valuable tools for data analysis and graphing. One of its many useful features is the heat map representation of numerical data, which is an invaluable tool to discover patterns in data quickly and efficiently. Instant Heat Maps in R How-to provides you with practical recipes to create heat maps of all difficulty levels by yourself right from the start. At the end of each recipe, you will find an in-depth analysis that will equip you with everything you need to know to frame the code to your own needs. Instant Heat Maps in R will present you with all the different heat map plotting functions that exist in R. You will start by creating simple heat maps before moving on to learn how to add more features to them. While you advance step-by-step through the well-connected recipes, you will find out which tool suits the given situation best. You will learn how to read data from popular file formats and how to format the data to create heat maps as well as the ways to export them for presentation.What you will learn
Use different heat map functions in R
Customize the layout of your heat maps
Read the data and apply it to the heat map
Export your heat maps into high-quality picture formats
Display geographical data on choropleth maps and contour plots
Add interactive hover effects to your heat maps
Who this book is forHeat Maps in R How-to is the book for you if you want to make use of this free and open source software to get the most out of your data analysis. You need to have at least some experience in using R and know how to run basic scripts from the command line. However, knowledge of other statistical scripting languages such as Octave, S-Plus, or MATLAB will suffice to follow along with the recipes. You need not be from a statistics background.
Key Features
Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results
Create heat maps in R using different file formats
Learn how to make choropleth maps and contour plots
Generate your own customized heat maps and add interactivity for displaying on the web
Book DescriptionR has grown rapidly over the years to become one of the most versatile and valuable tools for data analysis and graphing. One of its many useful features is the heat map representation of numerical data, which is an invaluable tool to discover patterns in data quickly and efficiently. Instant Heat Maps in R How-to provides you with practical recipes to create heat maps of all difficulty levels by yourself right from the start. At the end of each recipe, you will find an in-depth analysis that will equip you with everything you need to know to frame the code to your own needs. Instant Heat Maps in R will present you with all the different heat map plotting functions that exist in R. You will start by creating simple heat maps before moving on to learn how to add more features to them. While you advance step-by-step through the well-connected recipes, you will find out which tool suits the given situation best. You will learn how to read data from popular file formats and how to format the data to create heat maps as well as the ways to export them for presentation.What you will learn
Use different heat map functions in R
Customize the layout of your heat maps
Read the data and apply it to the heat map
Export your heat maps into high-quality picture formats
Display geographical data on choropleth maps and contour plots
Add interactive hover effects to your heat maps
Who this book is forHeat Maps in R How-to is the book for you if you want to make use of this free and open source software to get the most out of your data analysis. You need to have at least some experience in using R and know how to run basic scripts from the command line. However, knowledge of other statistical scripting languages such as Octave, S-Plus, or MATLAB will suffice to follow along with the recipes. You need not be from a statistics background.
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
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Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
File size
2,23 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78216-565-1 (9781782165651)
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06/2013
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Raschka Sebastian :
Sebastian Raschka is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison focusing on machine learning and deep learning research. As Lead AI Educator at Grid AI, Sebastian plans to continue following his passion for helping people get into machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Sebastian Raschka is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison focusing on machine learning and deep learning research. As Lead AI Educator at Grid AI, Sebastian plans to continue following his passion for helping people get into machine learning and artificial intelligence.
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