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This week’s #TidyTuesday: ‘lesser spotted’ birds

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I had wanted to add one of these plots to my portfolio for a while!
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Cara Thompson

Building Stories with Data

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January 11, 2023

For this week’s #TidyTuesday I explored the “lesser spotted” birds in the Project FeederWatch dataset… and also learnt that that’s not what lesser spotted means.

#rstats #r4ds #dataviz

Dataviz of five columns listing in alphabetical order the species of birds only featuring once, twice, three times, four times and five times in the dataset. The graph is decorated with a hand drawn image of a woodpecker. The text (other than the species lists) reads: (title:) Lesser spotted species (subtitle:) Lists of all bird species spotted only once to five times in the dataset. TIL that's not what lesser spotted means. (caption:) Dataviz: @cararthompson | Source: Project FeedwerWatch | Image: rspb.org.uk

Here’s the code and the making of. Most of this is {ggtext}. The key bit of data prep was to group by number of observations and then assign a rank alphabetically to provide a y-coordinate for each textbox.

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For attribution, please cite this work as:
Thompson, Cara. 2023. “This Week’s #TidyTuesday: ‘Lesser Spotted’ Birds.” January 11, 2023. https://www.cararthompson.com/posts/2023-01-11-for-this-weeks-tidy-tuesday-i/.