Data 608 Assignment 1
Stephen Haslett
8/30/2021
Principles of Data Visualization and Introduction to ggplot2
I have provided you with data about the 5,000 fastest growing companies in the US, as compiled by Inc. magazine. lets read this in:
inc <- read.csv("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/charleyferrari/CUNY_DATA_608/master/module1/Data/inc5000_data.csv", header = TRUE)And lets preview this data:
head(inc)## Rank Name Growth_Rate Revenue
## 1 1 Fuhu 421.48 1.179e+08
## 2 2 FederalConference.com 248.31 4.960e+07
## 3 3 The HCI Group 245.45 2.550e+07
## 4 4 Bridger 233.08 1.900e+09
## 5 5 DataXu 213.37 8.700e+07
## 6 6 MileStone Community Builders 179.38 4.570e+07
## Industry Employees City State
## 1 Consumer Products & Services 104 El Segundo CA
## 2 Government Services 51 Dumfries VA
## 3 Health 132 Jacksonville FL
## 4 Energy 50 Addison TX
## 5 Advertising & Marketing 220 Boston MA
## 6 Real Estate 63 Austin TXsummary(inc)## Rank Name Growth_Rate
## Min. : 1 (Add)ventures : 1 Min. : 0.340
## 1st Qu.:1252 @Properties : 1 1st Qu.: 0.770
## Median :2502 1-Stop Translation USA: 1 Median : 1.420
## Mean :2502 110 Consulting : 1 Mean : 4.612
## 3rd Qu.:3751 11thStreetCoffee.com : 1 3rd Qu.: 3.290
## Max. :5000 123 Exteriors : 1 Max. :421.480
## (Other) :4995
## Revenue Industry Employees
## Min. :2.000e+06 IT Services : 733 Min. : 1.0
## 1st Qu.:5.100e+06 Business Products & Services: 482 1st Qu.: 25.0
## Median :1.090e+07 Advertising & Marketing : 471 Median : 53.0
## Mean :4.822e+07 Health : 355 Mean : 232.7
## 3rd Qu.:2.860e+07 Software : 342 3rd Qu.: 132.0
## Max. :1.010e+10 Financial Services : 260 Max. :66803.0
## (Other) :2358 NA's :12
## City State
## New York : 160 CA : 701
## Chicago : 90 TX : 387
## Austin : 88 NY : 311
## Houston : 76 VA : 283
## San Francisco: 75 FL : 282
## Atlanta : 74 IL : 273
## (Other) :4438 (Other):2764Think a bit on what these summaries mean. Use the space below to add some more relevant non-visual exploratory information you think helps you understand this data:
describe(inc)## vars n mean sd median trimmed
## Rank 1 5001 2501.64 1443.51 2.502e+03 2501.73
## Name* 2 5001 2501.00 1443.81 2.501e+03 2501.00
## Growth_Rate 3 5001 4.61 14.12 1.420e+00 2.14
## Revenue 4 5001 48222535.49 240542281.14 1.090e+07 17334966.26
## Industry* 5 5001 12.10 7.33 1.300e+01 12.05
## Employees 6 4989 232.72 1353.13 5.300e+01 81.78
## City* 7 5001 732.00 441.12 7.610e+02 731.74
## State* 8 5001 24.80 15.64 2.300e+01 24.44
## mad min max range skew kurtosis se
## Rank 1853.25 1.0e+00 5.0000e+03 4.9990e+03 0.00 -1.20 20.41
## Name* 1853.25 1.0e+00 5.0010e+03 5.0000e+03 0.00 -1.20 20.42
## Growth_Rate 1.22 3.4e-01 4.2148e+02 4.2114e+02 12.55 242.34 0.20
## Revenue 10674720.00 2.0e+06 1.0100e+10 1.0098e+10 22.17 722.66 3401441.44
## Industry* 8.90 1.0e+00 2.5000e+01 2.4000e+01 -0.10 -1.18 0.10
## Employees 53.37 1.0e+00 6.6803e+04 6.6802e+04 29.81 1268.67 19.16
## City* 604.90 1.0e+00 1.5190e+03 1.5180e+03 -0.04 -1.26 6.24
## State* 19.27 1.0e+00 5.2000e+01 5.1000e+01 0.12 -1.46 0.22describe(inc$Revenue)## vars n mean sd median trimmed mad min max
## X1 1 5001 48222535 240542281 10900000 17334966 10674720 2e+06 1.01e+10
## range skew kurtosis se
## X1 1.0098e+10 22.17 722.66 3401441describe(inc$Employees)## vars n mean sd median trimmed mad min max range skew kurtosis
## X1 1 4989 232.72 1353.13 53 81.78 53.37 1 66803 66802 29.81 1268.67
## se
## X1 19.16Question 1
Create a graph that shows the distribution of companies in the dataset by State (ie how many are in each state). There are a lot of States, so consider which axis you should use. This visualization is ultimately going to be consumed on a 'portrait' oriented screen (ie taller than wide), which should further guide your layout choices.
ggplot(inc, aes(x = fct_infreq(State))) +
geom_bar(fill = '#FA8072', stat = 'count') +
coord_flip() +
geom_text(aes(label=..count..), stat = 'count', size = 3.5, hjust = -0.2, color = '#A52A2A') +
xlab('State') +
ylab('Number of Companies') +
ggtitle('Distribution of Companies by US State') +
theme(panel.background = element_blank())
Question 2
Lets dig in on the state with the 3rd most companies in the data set. Imagine you work for the state and are interested in how many people are employed by companies in different industries. Create a plot that shows the average and/or median employment by industry for companies in this state (only use cases with full data, use R's complete.cases() function.) In addition to this, your graph should show how variable the ranges are, and you should deal with outliers.
ny_companies <- inc %>%
filter(State == 'NY') %>%
filter(complete.cases(.)) %>%
group_by(Industry) %>%
summarize(Average = mean(Employees), Median = median(Employees))
ggplot(melt(ny_companies, id.vars = 'Industry'), aes(x = Industry, y = value, fill = variable)) +
geom_bar(stat = 'identity', position = 'dodge') +
coord_flip() +
theme_minimal() +
theme(panel.grid.major.x = element_line(size = 0.15, linetype = 'solid', color = '#808080'),
panel.grid.minor.x = element_line(size = 0.15, linetype = 'solid', color = '#696969'),
panel.grid.major.y = element_line(size = 0.15, linetype = 'solid', color = '#2F4F4F')) +
ggtitle('New York Employee Count by Industry') + ylab('Employee Count')
Question 3
Now imagine you work for an investor and want to see which industries generate the most revenue per employee. Create a chart that makes this information clear. Once again, the distribution per industry should be shown.
revenue <-inc[complete.cases(inc),] %>%
group_by(Industry) %>%
summarise(total_revenue = sum(Revenue), total_employees = sum(Employees)) %>%
mutate(revenue_per_employee = total_revenue / total_employees)
ggplot(revenue, aes(x = reorder(Industry, -revenue_per_employee), y = revenue_per_employee)) +
geom_bar(fill = '#8B008B', stat = 'identity') +
coord_flip() +
xlab('Industry') +
ylab('Revenue per Employee') +
ggtitle('Revenue per Employee by Industry') +
theme(panel.background = element_blank())