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I also like supporting data journalism through the subscriptions since without cash we will only have insane, extreme left\/right-wing perspectives out there.<\/p>\n<p>One of these publications is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/\">The Economist<\/a> (I&#8217;d subscribe to the Financial Times as well for the non-liberal perspective but I don&#8217;t need another mortgage payment right now). The graphics folks at The Economist are Top Notch\u2122 and a great source of inspiration to &#8220;do better&#8221; when cranking out visuals.<\/p>\n<p>After reading a recent issue, one of their visualization styles stuck in my head. Specifically, the one from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/united-states\/2019\/06\/29\/will-transparent-pricing-make-americas-health-care-cheaper\">this story on the costs of a mammogram<\/a>. I&#8217;ve put it below:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mammoscams-te-1.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12417\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rud.is\/b\/2019\/07\/15\/quick-hit-a-different-diminutive-look-at-distributions-with-ggeconodist\/mammoscams-te-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mammoscams-te-1.png?fit=608%2C967&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"608,967\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mammoscams-te-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mammoscams-te-1.png?fit=510%2C811&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mammoscams-te-1.png?w=265&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"   class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mammoscams-te-1.png?resize=530%2C843&amp;ssl=1 530w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mammoscams-te-1.png?resize=94%2C150&amp;ssl=1 94w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mammoscams-te-1.png?resize=189%2C300&amp;ssl=1 189w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mammoscams-te-1.png?resize=500%2C795&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mammoscams-te-1.png?resize=150%2C239&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mammoscams-te-1.png?resize=400%2C636&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mammoscams-te-1.png?resize=200%2C318&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mammoscams-te-1.png?w=608&amp;ssl=1 608w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Essentially it&#8217;s a boxplot with outliers removed along with significantly different aesthetics than the one we&#8217;re all used to seeing. I would not use this for exploratory data analysis or working with other data science team members when poking at a problem but I really like the idea of making &#8220;distributions&#8221; easier to consume for general audiences and believe The Economist graphics folks have done a superb job focusing on the fundamentals (both statistical and aesthetic).<\/p>\n<p>There are ways to hack something like those out manually in {ggplot2} but it would be nice to just be able to swap out something for <code>geom_boxplot()<\/code> when deciding to go to &#8220;production&#8221; with a distribution chart. Thus begat <a href=\"https:\/\/cinc.rud.is\/web\/packages\/ggeconodist\/\">{ggeconodist}<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since this is just a &#8220;quick hit&#8221; post we&#8217;ll avoid some interim blathering to note that we can use {ggplot2} (and a <em>touch<\/em> of {grid}) to make the following:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mammoscams-gg-2.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12422\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rud.is\/b\/2019\/07\/15\/quick-hit-a-different-diminutive-look-at-distributions-with-ggeconodist\/mammoscams-gg-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mammoscams-gg-2.png?fit=534%2C848&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"534,848\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mammoscams-gg-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mammoscams-gg-2.png?fit=510%2C810&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mammoscams-gg-2.png?w=265&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"   class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mammoscams-gg-2.png?resize=530%2C842&amp;ssl=1 530w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mammoscams-gg-2.png?resize=94%2C150&amp;ssl=1 94w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mammoscams-gg-2.png?resize=189%2C300&amp;ssl=1 189w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mammoscams-gg-2.png?resize=500%2C794&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mammoscams-gg-2.png?resize=150%2C238&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mammoscams-gg-2.png?resize=400%2C635&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mammoscams-gg-2.png?resize=200%2C318&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rud.is\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mammoscams-gg-2.png?w=534&amp;ssl=1 534w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>with just a tiny bit of R code:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"language-r\">library(ggeconodist)\n\nggplot(mammogram_costs, aes(x = city)) +\n  geom_econodist(\n    aes(ymin = tenth, median = median, ymax = ninetieth), stat = \"identity\"\n  ) +\n  scale_y_continuous(expand = c(0,0), position = \"right\", limits = range(0, 800)) +\n  coord_flip() +\n  labs(\n    x = NULL, y = NULL,\n    title = \"Mammoscams\",\n    subtitle = \"United States, prices for a mammogram*\\nBy metro area, 2016, $\",\n    caption = \"*For three large insurance companies\\nSource: Health Care Cost Institute\"\n  ) +\n  theme_econodist() -&gt; gg\n\ngrid.newpage()\nleft_align(gg, c(\"subtitle\", \"title\", \"caption\")) %&gt;% \n  add_econodist_legend(econodist_legend_grob(), below = \"subtitle\") %&gt;% \n  grid.draw()\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<h3>FIN<\/h3>\n<p>A future post (and, even &#8212; perhaps &#8212; a new screen sharing video) will describe what went into making this new geom, stat, and theme (along with some info on how I managed to reproduce data for the vis since none was provided).<\/p>\n<p>In the interim, hit up the <a href=\"https:\/\/cinc.rud.is\/web\/packages\/ggeconodist\/\">CINC page<\/a> on {ggeconodist} to learn more about the package. You <em>may<\/em> want to take a quick look at <a href=\"https:\/\/cinc.rud.is\/web\/packages\/hrbrthemes\/\">{hrbrthemes}<\/a> since it <em>might<\/em> have some helpers for using all the required theming components.<\/p>\n<p>So kick the tyres, file issues\/PRs, and be on the lookout for the director&#8217;s cut of the making of {ggeconodist}.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being a full-on denizen of all things digital I receive a fair number of dead-tree print magazines as there&#8217;s nothing quite like seeing an amazing, large, full-color print data-driven visualization up close and personal. 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