Tidy Tuesday is a weekly data project from the R4DS Online Learning Community aimed at helping people learn how to manipulate data using R. Every week they upload a new dataset and invite people to explore and chart the data. I'll upload my attempts here.
This week's data was a series of "frists" in African American History. For example: the first free settlement, first African American librarian of congress, and first African American owned and operated radio station.
Code can be found here.
This week I started working my way through the R4DS textbook, and it has been really useful. So far it's been really useful. A lot of things that I'd learned befrore, but hadn't stuck finally clicked. This week I made two plots, one showing the top twenty ingredients in the Mr. Boston cocktails dataset, and one showing the top ten by category.
I dashed both of these off pretty fast; I wanted to practice selecting, grouping, and filtering data, then get back to the book. I nan ideal world I'd spend more time cleaning up the visuals, but it's been a busy week.
Code can be found here.
Code can be found here.
This week I opeted for a relatively simple graph and spent more time bushing up on theming in ggplot. For the theme, I used a paired-down version of the bbplot function from the BBC. The BBC has a really good write-up on how they do their plots here. I like the idea of developing a house-style and writing functions to streamline it. Definitely something to look at in the future.
Code can be found here.