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<p><code># create data<br>
x &lt;- c(8,7,6,7,6,5,6,5,4,5,4,3,4,3,2,3,2,1,0.5,0.1)
<p>dat1 &lt;- data.frame(x1 = 1:length(x), x2 = x)<br>
dat2 &lt;- data.frame(x1 = 1:length(x), x2 = -x)<br>
dat1$xvar &lt;- dat2$xvar &lt;- NA<br>
dat1$yvar &lt;- dat2$yvar &lt;- NA<br>
dat1$siz &lt;- dat2$siz &lt;- NA<br>
dat1$col &lt;- dat2$col dec_threshold){</p>
<p> dat1$xvar[row] &lt;- row #sample(1:dat1$x1[row],1)<br>
dat1$yvar[row] &lt;- sample(1:dat1$x2[row]-1,1)<br>
dat1$siz[row] &lt;- runif(1,0.5,1.5)<br>
dat1$col[row] dec_threshold){</p>
<p> dat2$xvar[row] &lt;- row #sample(1:dat2$x1[row],1)<br>
dat2$yvar[row] &lt;- sample(1:dat2$x2[row],1)<br>
dat2$siz[row] &lt;- runif(1,0.5,1.5)<br>
dat2$col[row] &lt;- sample(1:5, 1)<br>
}<br>
}</p>
<p># plot the christmas tree<br>
ggplot() +<br>
geom_bar(data = dat1, aes(x=x1, y=x2),stat = &quot;identity&quot;, fill = '#31a354') +<br>
geom_bar(data = dat2, aes(x=x1, y=x2),stat = &quot;identity&quot;, fill = '#31a354') +<br>
geom_point(data = dat1,aes(x = xvar, y = yvar, size = siz, colour = as.factor(col)) ) +<br>
geom_point(data = dat2,aes(x = xvar, y = yvar, size = siz, colour = as.factor(col)) ) +<br>
coord_flip() + theme_minimal()+ theme(legend.position=&quot;none&quot;,<br>
axis.title.x=element_blank(),<br>
axis.text.x=element_blank(),<br>
axis.ticks.x=element_blank(),<br>
axis.title.y=element_blank(),<br>
axis.text.y=element_blank(),<br>
axis.ticks.y=element_blank()) +<br>
ggtitle('The Analytics Lab wishes you a Merry Christmas')</p>
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