Histograms, density plots, and ridgeline plots: Alternatives for displaying distributions (CC038)
Channel: Riffomonas Project
Date: 2020-10-12

In this screencast tutorial, Pat Schloss shows how you can use geom_histogram, geom_denisty, and geom_density_ridges to display distributions across categorical variables. He'll also remind you how to add other geom's on top of these plots. 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/2020-10-12-distributions