Data Visualization

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1. Load the R package we will use.

Quiz questions - Replace all the instances of ‘SEE QUIZ’. These are inputs from your moodle quiz. - Replace all the instances of ‘???’. These are answers on your moodle quiz. - Run all the individual code chunks to make sure the answers in this file correspond with your quiz answers - After you check all your code chunks run then you can knit it. It won’t knit until the ??? are replaced - The quiz assumes that you have watched the videos, downloaded (to your examples folder) and worked through the exercises in exercises_slides-73-108.Rmd. Knitted file is here.

Question: e_charts-1

Create a bar chart that shows the average hours Americans spend on five activities by year. Use the timeline argument to create an animation that will animate through the years.

spend_time contains 10 years of data on how many hours Americans spend each day on 5 activities

read it into spend_time

Start with spend_time

e_charts-1

• THEN group_by year
• THEN create an e_chart that assigns activity to the x-axis and will show activity by year (the variable that you grouped the data on)
• THEN use e_timeline_opts to set autoPlay to TRUE
• THEN use e_bar to represent the variable avg_hours with a bar chart
• THEN use e_title to set the main title to ‘Average hours Americans spend per day on each activity’
• THEN remove the legend with e_legend

Question: echarts-2

Create a line chart for the activities that American spend time on.

Start with spend_time

• THEN use mutate to convert year from an number to a string (year-month-day) using mutate
  • first convert year to a string “201X-12-31” using the function paste
    • paste will paste each year to 12 and 31 (separated by -) THEN
• THEN use mutate to convert year from a character object to a date object using the ymd function from the lubridate package (part of the tidyverse, but not automatically loaded). ymd converts dates stored as characters to date objects.
• THEN group_by the variable activity (to get a line for each activity)
• THEN initiate an e_charts object with year on the x-axis
• THEN use e_line to add a line to the variable avg_hours
• THEN add a tooltip with e_tooltip
• THEN use e_title to set the main title to ‘Average hours Americans spend per day on each activity’
• THEN use e_legend(top = 40) to move the legend down (from the top)

Question - modify slide 82

• Create a plot with the spend_time data
  • assign year to the x-axis
  • assign avg_hours to the y-axis
  • assign activity to color
• ADD points with geom_point
• ADD geom_mark_ellipse
  • filter on activity == “leisure/sports”
  • description is “Americans spend the most time on leisure/sport”

Question: tidyquant

Modify the tidyquant example in the video

Retrieve stock price for Amazon, ticker: AMZN, using tq_get

• from 2019-08-01 to 2020-07-28
• assign output to df

Create a plot with the df data

• assign date to the x-axis

• assign close to the y-axis

• ADD a line with with geom_line

• ADD geom_mark_ellipse

  • filter on a date to mark. Pick a date after looking at the line plot. Include the date in your Rmd code chunk.
  • include a description of something that happened on that date from the pandemic timeline. Include the description in your Rmd code chunk
  • fill the ellipse yellow

• ADD geom_mark_ellipse

  • filter on the date that had the minimum close price. Include the date in your Rmd code chunk.
  • include a description of something that happened on that date from the pandemic timeline. Include the description in your Rmd code chunk
  • color the ellipse red

• ADD labs

  • set the title to Amazon
  • set x to NULL
  • set y to “Closing price per share”
  • set caption to “Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_States”