European Parliament Data

This data is taken from the Votewatch Europe website and shows the percentage of votes attended by MEPs during the 2014-2019 session of the Parliament. This has been used to show the poor voting record of the British UKIP MEPs.

Summarising the Data

This is a simple summary of the data

##      Name              Party             Country               Rank      
##  Length:749         Length:749         Length:749         Min.   :  1.0  
##  Class :character   Class :character   Class :character   1st Qu.:188.0  
##  Mode  :character   Mode  :character   Mode  :character   Median :375.0  
##                                                           Mean   :374.8  
##                                                           3rd Qu.:562.0  
##                                                           Max.   :749.0  
##      Votes      
##  Min.   : 0.00  
##  1st Qu.:85.34  
##  Median :91.28  
##  Mean   :88.58  
##  3rd Qu.:94.79  
##  Max.   :99.94
##    Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max. 
##    0.00   85.34   91.28   88.58   94.79   99.94

Using ggplot2

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