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Flipping things around

When the labels for our x-axis run into each other, we have two main choices: change the labels to be vertical instead of horizontal or flip the axes. The latter is how the FiveThirtyEight graph did it and makes it easier to read the labels. The plot you created in the previous exercise, titled_plot, has been loaded for you.

This exercise is part of the course

Categorical Data in the Tidyverse

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Exercise instructions

  • Flip the x- and y-axis.
  • Remove the x-axis ticks.

Hands-on interactive exercise

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

flipped_plot <- titled_plot + 
    # Flip the axes
    ___ + 
    # Remove the x-axis ticks and labels
    ___(___ = element_blank(), 
        ___ = element_blank())
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