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Case Study 1: Critiquing Visualizations

Background

Your first weekly project requires you to submit a review of 4-5 different data visualizations used to answer specific questions. Some fun websites are pudding.cool, wonkblog, fivethiryeight, and priceonomics (but you can use any website, blog, or article with a good visualization).

• Course Website

Reading

This reading will help you complete the tasks below.

• o Making your first R Markdown File
• o Chapter 27: R for Data Science - R Markdown
• o Chapter 30: R for Data Science - R Markdown workflow

Tasks

• Find 4-5 examples of data-driven answers and write a one-paragraph review of each.
  • List 2-3 items that are unique/good
  • Identify 1 issue with each example
• Create an .Rmd file in R-Studio
  • Title it Case Study 1 in the YAML
  • Include links or embedded images to the visualization post you found
  • Write a one paragraph critique of each visualization
  • Add the R code below to your .Rmd file
  • Knit the file to .html and keep the .md file as well
• Upload your .md and .html files to the intern development channel in our Slack group

Code Snippet

plot(1:20)