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R Programming By Example

You're reading from   R Programming By Example Practical, hands-on projects to help you get started with R

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788292542
Length 470 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Omar Trejo Navarro Omar Trejo Navarro
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to R 2. Understanding Votes with Descriptive Statistics FREE CHAPTER 3. Predicting Votes with Linear Models 4. Simulating Sales Data and Working with Databases 5. Communicating Sales with Visualizations 6. Understanding Reviews with Text Analysis 7. Developing Automatic Presentations 8. Object-Oriented System to Track Cryptocurrencies 9. Implementing an Efficient Simple Moving Average 10. Adding Interactivity with Dashboards 11. Required Packages

Getting intuition with graphs and correlations

Now that we have some clean data to work with, we will create lots of plots to build intuition about the data. In this chapter, we will work with plots that are easy to create and are used for exploratory purposes. In Chapter 4, Simulating Sales Data and Working with Databases, we will look into publication ready plots that are a little more verbose to create.

Visualizing variable distributions

Our first plot is a simple one and shows the proportion of votes by each RegionName. As you can see in the plot shown below, the London, North West, and West Midlands regions account for around 55 percent of the observations in the data.

Vote Proportion by Region

To create the plot, we...

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