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ggplot2: Plot replication challenge!

2020-08-22

developed with Martin Frigaard

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Exercise

The purpose of this exercise is to re-create a publication-ready plot using your dplyr and ggplot2 skills.

Open the Financial Times article, Coronavirus tracked: the latest figures as countries start to reopen

There is also a PDF of the article titled, "2020-07-24-excess_mortality.pdf"

The data you need is "data/ft_excess_deaths.csv"

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Financial Times Figure

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You got this.

Don't worry about making it exactly, try and see how far you can get.

You're encouraged to work together if you want to and exchange tips/tricks you figured out.

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Questions to guide you:

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Questions to guide you:

What is the author trying to show us?

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Questions to guide you:

What is the author trying to show us?

What is the intended message?

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Questions to guide you:

What is the author trying to show us?

What is the intended message?

What can we learn from the subtitles?

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Questions to guide you:

What is the author trying to show us?

What is the intended message?

What can we learn from the subtitles?

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Questions to guide you:

What is the author trying to show us?

What is the intended message?

What can we learn from the subtitles?

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Questions to guide you:

What can we learn from the labels?

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Questions to guide you:

What can we learn from the labels?

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Questions to guide you:

What can we learn from the labels?

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Exercise

The purpose of this exercise is to re-create a publication-ready plot using your dplyr and ggplot2 skills.

Open the Financial Times article, Coronavirus tracked: the latest figures as countries start to reopen

There is also a PDF of the article titled, "2020-07-24-excess_mortality.pdf"

The data you need is "data/ft_excess_deaths.csv"

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