Week 2 viz: Basic viz

As with almost all the weekly visualizations, I’m expecting two files here:

• a data visualization, as an image (.jpg, .png, .pdf, etc)
• a “meta document” showing me what you did (ideally, a rendered HTML file from a .qmd)

Resources to help you:

• Slides with info: intro to ggplot2
• intro qmd document
• Other resources available on the page for the week

For this week, I just want you to make one “basic” visualization. You could pick a bar chart, a scatterplot, etc. (think of the common data viz types we reviewed). In your meta document, explain what the data visualization depicts (not just “a bar chart displays a categorical variable” but “this bar chart depicts [whatever it depicts]. We can see [whatever the big ‘so what’ is].”

I would like you to use either

• Data from the Du Bois challenge or
• Data from a fivethirtyeight dataset, like college_recent_grad or avengers