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############# Module 5, Basics of data visualization ##############
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## Lesson 8, Part 1: Introduction to data visualization (scatterplots and boxplots)


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##### UPLOAD DATA
# First, load the data. I sourced the rest of the data
# for this course from the 'Ecological Data Wiki" "ecologicaldata.org"
# that houses a repository of links to open-source datasets with accompanying references.
# For this first part I used data from 
# Lislevand et al. 2007: http://www.esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E088/096/default.htm



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##### THE 'plot()' and 'hist()' FUNCTIONS
# The most common and basic function you will use when plotting is plot()





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##### THE 'boxplot()' FUNCTION
# The next most common function for plotting is the boxplot function





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##### SUMMARY
# - plot(), hist(), boxplot() functions


