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Counts vs. proportions (2)

Bar charts can tell dramatically different stories depending on whether they represent counts or proportions and, if proportions, what the proportions are conditioned on. To demonstrate this difference, you'll construct two bar charts in this exercise: one of counts and one of proportions.

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Exploratory Data Analysis in R

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Instructions

  • Create a stacked bar chart of gender counts with align on the x-axis.
  • Create a stacked bar chart of gender proportions with align on the x-axis by setting the position argument to geom_bar() equal to "fill".

Exercice interactif pratique

Essayez cet exercice en complétant cet exemple de code.

# Plot of gender by align
ggplot(comics, aes(x = ___, fill = ___)) +
  geom_bar()
  
# Plot proportion of gender, conditional on align
ggplot(comics, aes(x = ___, fill = ___)) + 
  geom_bar(position = ___) +
  ylab("proportion")
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