The objective of this assignment is to learn to identify the geometric objects and aesthetics used in different kinds of visualisations. When you are familiar with these building blocks of the Grammar of Graphics, it becomes easy to describe the structure of a visualisation.
Below are some visualisations produced with tools based on the grammar of graphics. For this assignment, you are expected to describe the chart with the Grammar of Graphics terminology. This means you should name
Please select some of the visualisations below, and add a comment to them with the points listed above. If a comment already contains all you wanted to say about a visualisation, you don’t have to repeat the comment that is already present. If a visualisation has not received a comment yet, please consider it a good candidate to add your comments to it.
This plot shows movie ratings on IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes. Source: vega.github.io/vega-lite/examples/circle_binned.html
The price of the Apple stock over 6 years. Source: observablehq.com/@observablehq/cyclical-time-scale-v2
Traffic data for different German stations. https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/plot-ridgeline
Body measurements of penguins. https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/examples/point_color_with_shape.html
Global deaths from natural disasters. https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/examples/circle_natural_disasters.html
Horsepower and fuel efficiency of cars. Adapted from https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/examples/text_scatterplot_colored.html
Stock prices over multiple years. vega.github.io/vega-lite/examples/line_strokedash.html
Daily maximum temperatures in Seattle. vega.github.io/vega-lite/examples/layer_line_rolling_mean_point_raw.html
US population by age groups and gender in 2000. https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/examples/bar_layered_transparent.html
US population be age groups and gender in 2000. vega.github.io/vega-lite/examples/stacked_bar_h_normalized_labeled.html
Source: r-graph-gallery.com/web-extended-dumbbell-plot-ggplot2.html
Ratings of episodes of The Office. Source: juliasilge.com/blog/lasso-the-office