Exercise 4: Time series plot - all diseases in the United States

Now we are going to make a time series plot for the rates of all diseases in the United States. For this exercise, we have provided less sample code - you can take a look at the previous exercise to get you started.

This exercise is part of the course

Data Science Visualization - Module 2

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Exercise instructions

Compute the US rate by using summarize to sum over states. Call the variable rate.
- The US rate for each disease will be the total number of cases divided by the total population.
- Remember to convert to cases per 10,000.
You will need to filter for !is.na(population) to get all the data.
Plot each disease in a different color.

Hands-on interactive exercise

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

library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)
library(dslabs)
library(RColorBrewer)
data(us_contagious_diseases)

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