Combining plot types and data frames with ggplot2: Making sophisticated plots look easy (CC037)
Channel: Riffomonas Project
Date: 2020-10-08

In this screencast tutorial, Pat Schloss shows how you can use multiple geom's and data frames in ggplot to make attractive figures. He mixes and matches the geom_jitter, geom_boxplot, geom_point, geom_line, and geom_segment to combine raw and summary data in the same plot. He also shows how to use scale_x_discrete to customize our x-axis labels. This episode is part of a larger arc of episodes investigating the sensitivity and specificity of amplicon sequence variants (ASVs), also known as exact sequence variants (ESVs). ASVs are growing in popularity for analyzing microbial communities using 16S rRNA gene sequences.Pat demonstrates these concepts by live coding at the command line interface using RStudio, GitHub Flow, and make.

The accompanying blog post contains the exercises and solutions can be found at http://www.riffomonas.org/code_club/2020-10-08-overplotting