Assignment 2

Note that there are two parts to this assignment, but you only need to submit something for part 2.

1. RStudio Primers

Get to know Rstudio through their in-house primers.

Step 1

Head over to RStudio Cloud Primers and click on “The Basics.”

Step 2

Complete both the “Visualization Basics” and “Programming” sections.

Note that there will be nothing to turn in here. This is an exercise that helps you get familiar with the RStudio interface and also acquaints you with the visualization package we will use, ggplot2.

2. UN Votes

For this assignment you will explore a data set on country voting patterns at the UN.

Step 1

Go to our positCloud site and create and account.

Step 2

Click on the UNVotes project

Step 3

In the Files pane (bottom right corner), there is a file called unvotes.qmd. Open this file and click “render” (the button should be in the top left pane).

Step 4

Go back to the file and change the name to your name on top (in the ‘yaml’) and render again. You should see the updated html file in the viewer.

Step 5

Look through the appendix in the .Rmd file and pick some countries to explore. Change the country names in the file, and render again.

Step 6

Write up your thoughts on using these visualizations to build a data story in the space provided. Render one final time.

Step 7

Export your whole project (all files) to a zip file and email it to me.