Visualising trends of chattiness and IMDB ratings in Avatar: The last airbender
dataviz
ggplot2
storytelling
tidyverse
tidyTuesday
polar plot
cowplot
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
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”.
Code: https://github.com/cararthompson/tidytuesdays/blob/main/scripts/202008_avatar.R
And here’s the Making Of:
Lots of trial and error with {cowplot} to get the layout to work. There must be a better way!
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For attribution, please cite this work as:
“Visualising Trends of Chattiness and IMDB Ratings in Avatar: The
Last Airbender.” 2020. August 14, 2020. https://www.cararthompson.com/posts/2020-08-14-for-this-weeks-tidy-tuesday-i.