Comparing geographies with ggplot2 visualizations

When exploring Census or ACS data, you'll often want to know how data varies among different geographic units. For example - which US states have higher - or lower - median household incomes? This can be accomplished through visualization using dot plots, which are particularly effective for showing ranks visually. In this exercise, you'll use the popular ggplot2 data visualization package to accomplish this.

This exercise is part of the course

Analyzing US Census Data in R

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Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Access the 1-year ACS  with the survey parameter
ne_income <- ___(geography = "state",
                     variables = "B19013_001", 
                     ___ = "acs1", 
                     state = c("ME", "NH", "VT", "MA", 
                               "RI", "CT", "NY"))

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