15  Choose Your Own OWD

Resources

Readings

• (review) Chapter 7: R for Data Science—Exploratory Data Analysis

• These next two references come from another excellent online book: ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis. You may find it a useful reference at other times during the semester as well. For this assignment you may find it useful to scan these two chapters:

  • Themes
  • Annotations

Guided Instruction

Example: Visualization for Presentation Walk Through

Background

The Our World in Data website has world data. It is nice that they have provided graphics and the data that they used to generate the graphics. We are going to recreate one of their visualizations.

Task

1. Review the Our World in Data webpage and find a graphic that interests you. Using the data from their website, spend a couple of hours recreating their graphic as closely as you can in an .qmd file . (Make sure you keep the link or can navigate back to the original chart on their website).
2. Be sure to include a link to or a snapshop of the graphic you are trying to recreate in your .qmd file

Submit

In I-learn submit a link to the .md file containing your chart(s) on GitHub.