Week 6: Graphing Trends

This week, we will learn some of the technical details of how to create charts that highlight trends, which inherently involve changes over time. Most of these articles have code in them that illustrate how to create each chart type, and I encourage you to try and reproduce the examples provided in R yourself.

• Wilke: 13 - Visualizing time series
• Wilke: 14 - Visualizing trends
• 11 Ways to Visualize Changes Over Time – A Guide
• Common ggplots for showing change
• Time-Series Calendar Heatmaps
• Hans Rosling - The best stats you’ve ever seen

Optional:

• Changes in how couples meet over time
• The fallen of WWII (video)
• How common is your birthday?
• Dual-Scaled Axes in Graphs - Are They Ever the Best Solution?
• Sankey diagrams

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EMSE 4197 (CRN 78916): Exploratory Data Analysis - Spring 2020
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