This document summarizes a brown-bag seminar on introducing R and data visualization. It covers loading and exploring data; basic data types and data frames; performing operations and asking questions of the data; subsetting, filtering, and handling duplicates and missing values; basic statistical analysis and graphs; and using the ggplot2 package to create bar plots, scatter plots, line graphs, box plots and more to visualize relationships in the data. Key points covered include using geom_bar with stat="bin", adding colors and facets, setting linetype and point shapes, and layering geoms to overlay points and lines on the same plot.