Week 4 viz: Ugly plot

This week’s visualization assignment is to make an ugly plot. I would like you to make at least three changes– in the scale (color, fill, etc), theme (background color, line width, etc) and/or coordinate system. You can use whatever data you would like for this assignment. Some ideas:

• the bechdel data from the lab
• another fivethirtyeight dataset (maybe the one you used for your week 2 viz?)
• a Du Bois challenge dataset

Like many assignments in this class, I’m looking for two documents here:

• A rendered Quarto doc that shows me your code and explains what your visualization shows. For this assignment, I’d love for you to list the things you changed about the visualization.
• A visualization, saved as an image (jpg, png, pdf, etc)

One hint for your Quarto doc is that it needs to have embed-resources: true in the YAML (the first few lines of the document).

---
title: "Ugly Plot"
author: "Professor McNamara"
format: html
editor: visual
execute: 
  echo: true
embed-resources: true
---

Need a pointer? Check out the R Graphics Cookbook, particularly 9.4 Changing the Appearance of Theme Elements.