The “Beautiful Plots Across Languages” Bundle

For just $19.99 USD, get two chunky books. That’s more or less the cost of a decent lunch these days, and infinitely more nourishing for your data viz skills.

What’s Included:

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Ggplot2 After years of wrestling with base R plots, fighting with lattice, and finally embracing the grammar of graphics, I’ve distilled everything into this guide. Learn to create publication-ready visualizations and even replicate styles from XKCD, The Economist, and FiveThirtyEight. No more googling “how to rotate axis labels in ggplot2” at 2 AM or using AI tools to guide your code attempts.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Plotnine
Love ggplot2 but work mostly in Python? This book brings the elegance of the grammar of graphics to Python through plotnine. Same powerful concepts, different language. Perfect for data scientists who would like a “gglot2 for Python” experience.

These books contain years of hard-won knowledge from someone who’s made every plotting mistake possible so you don’t have to. The first edition of the ggplot2 guide was written in 2015, and since Jodie Burchell (my coauthor for it) have been refining it to make it as clear and accessible as possible.

Both books include the R Markdown and Jupyter Notebook files with all the exercises, so you can follow along and practice as you go.

Whether you’re a grad student trying to make your thesis plots not look terrible, a data scientist who needs to present information with compelling visuals, or someone who just wants to stop copying and pasting from Stack Overflow/ChatGPT, these books will save you time and frustration.

Get the Bundle here.

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