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Exercise 4: Making a box plot

To further investigate whether moving to the western region is a wise decision, let's make a box plot of murder rates by region, showing all points.

This exercise is part of the course

Data Science Visualization - Module 2

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Exercise instructions

  • Order the regions by their median murder rate by using mutate and reorder.
  • Make a box plot of the murder rates by region.
  • Show all of the points on the box plot.

Hands-on interactive exercise

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

library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)
library(dslabs)
data("murders")
murders %>% mutate(rate = total/population*100000)
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