# Visual-tools meeting 21 - ggplot study session 1 - summary & recording
**URL:** https://clojureverse.org/t/visual-tools-meeting-21-ggplot-study-session-1-summary-recording/10604
**Category:** Meetups and Events
**Tags:** data-visualization, visual-tools
**Created:** [February 29, 2024, 4:02pm UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/visual-tools-meeting-21-ggplot-study-session-1-summary-recording/10604 "2024-02-29T16:02:40Z")
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### Author:  [@daslu](https://clojureverse.org/u/daslu)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2024, 4:02pm UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/visual-tools-meeting-21-ggplot-study-session-1-summary-recording/10604/1 "2024-02-29T16:02:40Z")
On Feb 25th, 2024, the Scicloj [visual-tools group](https://scicloj.github.io/docs/community/groups/visual-tools/) had its 21st meeting.
This was the first session on a short series about [ggplot2](https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/), an [R](https://www.r-project.org/) package for grammar-of-graphics data visualization.
A few Clojure library authors, blog authors, and datavis practitioners participated, and we had a good discussion.
# Summary
- @respatialized read some comments from [The Grammar of Graphics](https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/0-387-28695-0) book by Leland Wilkinson
- we saw how to use ggplot2 from Clojure using [ClojisR](https://github.com/scicloj/clojisr/) - see [notes](https://scicloj.github.io/clojure-data-scrapbook/projects/datavis/ggplot/study_session_20240225.html)
- discussed some grammar concepts and their manifestation in ggplot
- read a bit in the [GGplot2 Book](https://ggplot2-book.org/) by [Hadley Wickham](http://hadley.nz/), [Danielle Navarro](https://djnavarro.net/), and [Thomas Lin Pedersen](https://www.data-imaginist.com/)
- discussed possible plans for similar libraries in Clojure
# Video
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BYObNV2pxk)
## Shared links
- @respatialized - [Exploring Minard’s 1812 plot with ggplot2](https://github.com/andrewheiss/fancy-minard)
- [ggtrace](https://yjunechoe.github.io/ggtrace/) and the related [talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUBnitXf5mk) by June Choe
## Next time
The next ggplot2 study session will take place in March 17th. We will announce it soon at Clojureverse and at the [Clojure Calendar Feed](https://v2.clojureverse.org/t/the-clojure-events-calendar-feed-turns-2/).
## Will you join us?
Please reach out if you are interested in this group.
It is recommended to follow the [#visual-tools Zulip stream](https://clojurians.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/313390-visual-tools/) and the [#visual-tools Slack channel](https://clojurians.slack.com/archives/C02V9TL2G3V).
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### Author:  [@system](https://clojureverse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2024, 4:03am UTC](https://clojureverse.org/t/visual-tools-meeting-21-ggplot-study-session-1-summary-recording/10604/2 "2024-08-30T04:03:32Z")
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