In your mathematics class, you likely studied geometry, examining different shapes and the characteristics of those shapes, such as area, perimeter, and other factors. The geometric objects in ggplot2 are visual structures that are used to visualize data. They can be lines, bars, points, and so on.
Geometric objects are constructed from datasets. Before we construct some geometric objects, let's examine some datasets to understand the different kinds of variables.
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