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2 This presentation was made possible by the support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The contents in this presentation are the sole responsibility of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID, PEPFAR or the United States Government. 

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Office of HIV/AIDS 

Taking a stroll down memory lane 

+100 colors used in a single presentation 

How do we create coherence and efficiency across all our work? 

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55 countries USAID/PEPFAR is actively working in 

Karishma Aaron 

Karishma Aaron 

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Explore existing products universe Refinements to ggplot Packaging with a style guide 

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Understand existing workflows 

Codify what exists from existing element 

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Repeating the same ggplot theme elements across the same file (and others) Repeating hex colors throughout that are not standard across files Repeating standard exports size and dpi for presentation usage 

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Explore existing products universe Refinements to ggplot Packaging with a style guide 

Plot Elements Typeface Color 

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ggplot2::theme_minimal() %+replace% ggplot2::theme( plot.title = ggplot2::element_text( family = font_title, size = 14 * text_scale, face = "bold", color = color_title, margin = ggplot2::margin(b = half hjust = 0), plot.subtitle = ggplot2::element_te family = font_subtitle, ggplot2::theme_minimal() 

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MEDIUM BLUE USAID RED USAID 

Adobe Color Palettable Viz Palette MEDIUM BLUE USAID RED USAID 

Adobe Color Palettable Viz Palette MEDIUM BLUE USAID RED USAID DENIM OLD ROSE OHA 

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Lisa Charlotte Muth blog.datawrapper.de/category/color-in-data-vis/ 

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si_palettes si_rampr() si_style() scale_fill/color_si() si_preview() si_save() 

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p + labs(subtitle = "default") BASE GGPLOT 

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“It just works” 

Explore existing products universe Refinements to ggplot Packaging with a style guide 

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49 “PEPFAR has prioritized, and made significant progress toward, transitioning a substantial majority of our funding by agency to local partners” 

50 “PEPFAR has prioritized, and made significant progress toward, transitioning a substantial majority of our funding by agency to local partners” 

51 Sorted Colors Clutter Title Labels Axes Four operating units achieved USAIDʼs 70% goal Local partner share of budget 70% goal All of these operating units fell short of the 70% of goal. “PEPFAR has prioritized, and made significant progress toward, transitioning a substantial majority of our funding by agency to local partners” 

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53 tinyurl.com/ohastyleguide 

So what? 

Before glitr and our Style Guide After glitr and our Style Guide 

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INVENTORY OF UNIVERSE REFINEMENTS IN GGPLOT PACKAGE AND SOCIALIZE 

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Links to Resources ● Git/Github ○ Happy with Git and GitHub for the useR (Bryan) ○ USAID-OHA-SI Organizational GitHub ● Plot Elements ○ ggplot2 GitHub (Posit) ○ glitr GitHub (Essam et al, USAID) ● Color ○ Adobe Color ○ Viz Palette (Meeks and Lu) ○ Color in Data Viz (Muth, Data Wrapper) ● Package ○ R Packages (Wickham and Bryan) ○ Writing an R package from scratch (Westlake) ○ Getting down with pkgdown (Richardson) ○ Your first R package in 1 hour (Pileggi) ● Style Guide ○ OHA Data Visualization Style Guide (Chafetz and Essam) ○ City Intelligence Data Design (Brondbjerg) ○ Urban Institute Data Visualization Style Guide (Chartoff and Schwabish) ○ Style Guide collection 

Notes and Attribution ● Prepared for Posit Conf 2023 in Chicago [September 19, 2023] ○ Aaron Chafetz, Senior Economist, USAID/Office of HIV/AIDS ○ Karishma Srikanth, Data Analyst, USAID/Office of HIV/AIDS ○ Support and feedback from: Josh Davis, Tim Essam, Jessica Hoehner, Baboyma Kagniniwa, and Amanda Makulec ● USAID Graphics Standards Manual and Partner Co-Branding (2020) ● Lisa Charlotte Muth Datawrapper Blog ● PEPFAR Annual Report to Congress (2022) ● Aaron Chafetz and Tim Essam “Data Visualization Style Guide” Office of HIV/AIDS (2020) ● Aaron Chafetz and Tim Essam “Visualizing Data: Using Data to Tell a Story” (2023) ● Image sources ○ “A man hand pointing or touching screen” indysystem [Adobe Stock] ○ “Paint brushes nex to drawing book and water color palette” Tim Arerbury [Unsplash] ○ “Person looking at painting” Antenna [Unsplash] ○ Nike Logo [Wikipedia] ○ “Person standing in front of trees” Andrew Neel [Unsplash] ○ “White paint palette with paint brush” Glen Carrie [Unsplash] ○ “A large grid of pins connected with string” ink drop [Adobe Stock] ○ “person holding white dandelion flower” Ivan Dostal [Unsplash] ○ “Painting by numbers with acrylics on cotton canvas is a hobby for practicing at home” Anna Huchak [Adobe Stock] ○ “Echo” wandering echos [Unsplash] ● Icon sourced from the Noun Project - Stairs by Setyo Ari Wibowo, hourglass by Mello, Laptop by Emmanuel Garcia Frias, Book by Abner Ignatius, Glasses by Nico Ilk