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Animating a scatterplot

Your task is to create an animated bubble chart of the state-level housing price index against real GDP from 1997 to 2017. Can you see the impact of the recession on the housing market?

The us_economy data set and plotly are already loaded into your R session.

This exercise is part of the course

Intermediate Interactive Data Visualization with plotly in R

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Exercise instructions

  • Create an animated scatterplot over the years with gdp on the x-axis and house_price on the y-axis.
  • Color the markers by region.
  • Make the diameter of the markers proportional to the population.

Hands-on interactive exercise

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

# Create an animated bubble chart of house_price against gdp
us_economy %>%
  ___(x = ___, y = ___) %>%
  ___(size = ___, color = ___, 
      frame = ___, ids = ___,
      marker = ___(___ = ___))
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