Practice Your ggplot Skills: Exercises

ggplot2 is a great tool for complex data visualization. Let’s practice it a bit!

Answers to these exercises are available here.

For each exercise, please replicate the given graph. Some exercises require additional data wrangling. If you obtained a different (correct) answer than those listed on the solutions page, please feel free to post your answer as a comment on that page.

Exercise 1
Fancy the iris dot-plot.

Exercise 2
Faceted smoothing (iris, once again).

Exercise 3
Tufte style mtcars.

Exercise 4
mtcars bubble-plot.

Exercise 5
Polar barplot of the mean diamond price per cut and color.

Exercise 6
Economist style economics time series. (Hint: you will need the ggthemes package.)

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