#30DayChartChallenge - Day 15: Relationships | Multivariate

data-visualisation

storytelling

Spent way too long on this one, looking for a good dataset to illustrate this concept!

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Cara Thompson

Building Stories with Data

Published

April 15, 2021

I’ve found beeswarm plots to be a helpful way of intuitively communicating the patterns in the underlying data, allowing us to highlight different groups within a distribution.

Scatter plots analyse weight's impact on 2016 Rio Olympic gold medal success for cyclists and gymnasts. Gold dots represent medallists. Weight alone is not a predictor; success links to a combination of weight, sport, and sex, notably in male athletes.

Once I’d found the pattern I needed in the data, the main headache was the layout. Ended up with a combination of {cowplot} and {patchwork} in the end.

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Thompson, Cara. 2021. “#30DayChartChallenge - Day 15: Relationships | Multivariate.” April 15, 2021. https://www.cararthompson.com/posts/2021-04-15-x30day-chart-challenge-day-15-relationships/.