Level up your plots - Shiny in Production 2024 Edition

A 3-hour in person code-along workshop, exploring how we can make the most of colours, text, styling annotations, and interactivity to create compelling data visualisations

This page was built for those who were at the session, to allow me to share resources and code that they can apply to their own plots. But if you landed on this page and weren’t at the session, feel free to build on the code you find!

Happy plotting!

Resources

• Dataviz types inspiration: data-to-viz.com
• Extracting colours from images: imagecolorpicker.com
• Creating palettes from scratch: paletton.com
• Colour palette checker: vis4.net/palettes
• Text contrast checker: colourcontrast.cc/
• Font inspiration: pimpmytype.com
• My talk last year, for more text fun: Ten tips for better text
• Getting fonts to work in R: My blog post
• Creating parameterised plot functions: cararthompson.com/talks/parameterise

Code snippets

• #1 - Our basic plot
• #2 - Adding colours the safe way
• #3 - Changing the font and text colours
• #4 - Turning a theme into a function
• #5 - Adding annotations
• #6 - Turning the plot into an interactive one