Video practice examples and questions of Data Visualization for Quiz 9
Create a bar chart that shows the average hours Americans spend on five activities by year. Use the timeline argument to create an animation that will animate through the years.
spend_time <- read_csv("https://estanny.com/static/week8/spend_time.csv")
e_charts-1
Start with spend_time
THEN group_by year
THEN create an e_chart that assigns activity to the x-axis and will show activity by year (the variable that you grouped the data on)
THEN use e_timeline_opts to set autoPlay to TRUE
THEN use e_bar to represent the variable avg_hours with a bar chart
THEN use e_title to set the main title to ‘Average hours Americans spend per day on each activity’
THEN remove the legend with e_legend
Create a line chart for the activities that American spend time on.
Start with spend_time
THEN use mutate to convert year from an number to a string (year-month-day) using mutate
year to a string “201X-12-31” using the function paste
paste will paste each year to 12 and 31 (separated by -) THENTHEN use mutate to convert year from a character object to a date object using the ymd function from the lubridate package (part of the tidyverse, but not automatically loaded). ymd converts dates stored as characters to date objects.
THEN group_by the variable activity (to get a line for each activity)
THEN initiate an e_charts object with year on the x-axis
THEN use e_line to add a line to the variable avg_hours
THEN add a tooltip with e_tooltip
THEN use e_title to set the main title to ‘Average hours Americans spend per day on each activity’
THEN use e_legend(top = 40) to move the legend down (from the top)
Create a plot with the spend_time data
year to the x-axisavg_hours to the y-axisactivity to colorADD points with geom_point
ADD geom_mark_ellipse
ggplot(spend_time, aes(x =year, y = avg_hours,color = activity)) +
geom_point() +
geom_mark_ellipse(aes(filter= activity == "leisure/sports",
description= "Americans spend on average more time each day on leisure/sports than the other activities"))

Modify the tidyquant example in the video
Retrieve stock price for Google, ticker: GOOG, using tq_get
2019-08-01 to 2020-07-28dfdf <- tq_get("GOOG", get = "stock.prices", from ="2019-08-01", to ="2020-07-28" )
Create a plot with the df data
assign date to the x-axis
assign close to the y-axis
ADD a line with with geom_line
ADD geom_mark_ellipse
ADD geom_mark_ellipse
ADD labs
title to Googleggplot(df, aes(x = date, y = close)) +
geom_line() +
geom_mark_ellipse(aes(filter = date == "2020-02-18", description = "First case of COVID-19"),fill = "yellow") +
geom_mark_ellipse(aes(filter = date == "2020-03-20",description = "State death toll of 479."),color = "red", ) +
labs(title = " Google",
x = NULL,
y = "Closing price per share",
caption = "Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_States")
