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Basic line plots

Here, we'll use the economics dataset to make some line plots. The dataset contains a time series for unemployment and population statistics from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis in the United States. The data is contained in the ggplot2 package.

To begin with, you can look at how the median unemployment time and the unemployment rate (the number of unemployed people as a proportion of the population) change over time.

This exercise is part of the course

Introduction to Data Visualization with ggplot2

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Hands-on interactive exercise

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

# Print the head of economics
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# Using economics, plot unemploy vs. date
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  # Make it a line plot
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