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Exercise

Faceting by year

All of the graphs in this chapter have been visualizing statistics within one year. Now that you're able to use faceting, however, you can create a graph showing all the country-level data from 1952 to 2007, to understand how global statistics have changed over time.

Instructions
100 XP
  • Create a scatter plot of the gapminder data:
  • Put GDP per capita (gdpPercap) on the x-axis and life expectancy (lifeExp) on the y-axis, with continent (continent) represented by color and population (pop) represented by size.
  • Put the x-axis on a log scale
  • Facet by the year variable