Visualising trends of chattiness and IMDB ratings in Avatar: The last airbender

Using ggplot to combine traditional plots, polar bargraphs and images in a data visualisation to tell a story about a group of more or less chatty characters

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Cara Thompson

Building Stories with Data

For this week’s #TidyTuesday I explored:

• 📦 {tvthemes} and {cowplot}
• coord_polar(), inspired by CedScherer’s masterful Astronauts plot
• piping df into ggplot()

and discovered there is no antonym for “sweet spot”.

You can retrace my steps with the code here

And here’s the Making Of:

Lots of trial and error with {cowplot} to get the layout to work. I have since figured out a better way!

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