Juneteenth 2021: using R's ggplot2 to create a line plot and heatmap of lynchings (CC116)

Juneteenth is the anniversary of the 1865 emancipation of slaves in Texas. To commemorate this important date, I'm presenting a series of episodes creating data visualizations using data from the CSDE Lynching Database. This episode generates a line plot showing the number lynchings by year and a heatmap showing the trends by state.

Pat will use RStudio and the #geom_line, #geom_tile functions from the #ggplot2 package as well as numerous #dplyr functions. The accompanying blog post can be found at https://www.riffomonas.org/code_club/...

The CSDE Lynching database can be found at http://lynching.csde.washington.edu/#...

Do you have a figure that you would like to receive a critique or help improving? Let me know and I'd be happy to arrange a guest appearance!

If you're interested in taking an upcoming 3 day R workshop, email me at [email protected]!

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0:00 Introduction
5:57Creating a line plot
14:40 Creating a heatmap
26:43 Recap