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Plotting Classic Literature Writing Statistics with R

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Level
Clock icon Intermediate
Duration
Clock icon 11h 37m
Published
Clock icon Sep 12, 2022

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Plotting Charles Dickens' Writing Statistics

    Overview

    In this challenge we'll create a visualization that presents data about Charles Dickens' literary works.

    The data set provided for this module is separated into two main csv files. One called titles.csv and the other called stats.csv.

    Each file was created using data compiled from Project Gutenberg. There is a common column between the data sets, the Project Gutenberg eBook id, which we will use to join the two csv files together.

    We will filter this data to only include Dickens' work and then plot it using the ggplot2 package.

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

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