box_plots {datasauRus}

Box plot data

Description

This dataset is the box plot data produced by Matjeka & Fitzmaurice to demonstrate applicability of their process.

Usage

box_plots

Format

A data frame with 2484 rows and 5 variables:

• left: data pulled to the left

• lines: data with arbitrary spikes along a range

• normal: normally distributed data

• right: data pulled to the right

• split: split data

References

Matejka, J., & Fitzmaurice, G. (2017). Same Stats, Different Graphs: Generating Datasets with Varied Appearance and Identical Statistics through Simulated Annealing. CHI 2017 Conference proceedings: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Retrieved from https://www.research.autodesk.com/publications/same-stats-different-graphs/. #nolint

Examples

summary(box_plots)

## base plot

#save current settings
state = par("mar", "mfrow")

par(mfrow = c(5, 2), mar = c(1, 2, 2, 1))

nms = names(box_plots)

for (i in 1:5) {
  nm = nms[i]
  hist(box_plots[[nms[i]]],
       breaks = 100,
       main = nm)
  boxplot(box_plots[[nms[i]]],
          horizontal = TRUE)
}


#reset settings
par(state)

## ggplot
if (require(ggplot2)) {
  ggplot(box_plots, aes(x = left)) +
    geom_density()
  ggplot(box_plots, aes(x = lines)) +
    geom_density()
  ggplot(box_plots, aes(x = normal)) +
    geom_density()
  ggplot(box_plots, aes(x = right)) +
    geom_density()
  ggplot(box_plots, aes(x = split)) +
    geom_density()
}