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Themes to spice up visualizations with ggplot2

6 min readAug 21, 2021

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On a single glance, when you look at a visualization, few things pop out, which may vary from person to person. Those eye-catching features can be the charts or images, colors used, text style, or even the background. If you are into data visualization and familiar with principles for creating good visualization. Then surely, you must have an idea that a chart consists of data and the skeleton. Whatever is left in the visualization is the skeleton that deals with the axis, annotations, and the background, commonly known as the theme.

If you are an R user, then probably you would know by now that the ggplot2 package has limited themes. But the ggplot2 package gives the option to customize your very own theme.

Interested in customizing your theme then check this article:

If customizing your theme is too time-consuming, then R lovers have created extensions for the ggplot2 package that provide…

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Abhinav Malasi
Abhinav Malasi

Written by Abhinav Malasi

Passionate about Dataviz | Mathviz | Machine Learning using R. In quest to help SME’s to leverage the power of data.