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Plotting Classic Literature Download Statistics with R

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Level
Clock icon Intermediate
Duration
Clock icon 1h 54m
Published
Clock icon Sep 12, 2022

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Plotting Mark Twain's Download Statistics

    Overview

    We'll create a visualization that presents data about Mark Twain's literary works.

    The data set provided for this module is a single CSV file called books.csv. The file was created using data compiled from Project Gutenberg.

    This data has already been imported and is stored in a variable called books.

    We will filter the books data frame to only include Twain's works. We'll remove duplicate works and then compare average sentence length, total sentences and downloads in a scatter plot.

    We will use the tidyverse collection of packages. For more on the tidyverse and its opinionated design philosophy, grammar, and data structures see Tidyverse. ### Solution The solution can be found in the solution directory.

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