Assignment 3-Xiaoran Cheng

[xiaorancheng]

I did a research on the amount of armed forces personnel in different countries.

[bensoltoff]

• This is a nice research note and you make good use of statistical graphs (including geospatial visualizations) to communicate findings, but the assignment was to develop an interactive visualization. This has no interactive components. You need to follow the instructions for the assignment.
• On the logged scale graphs, a better approach is to pass the original variable in as an aesthetic (y = total) and use scale_y_log10() or scale_y_continuous(trans = "log"). This will preserve meaningful values for the tick mark labels and make the graph easier to interpret
• What is the point of the color aesthetic for the bar charts? Each bar is already separately drawn, the color just adds more clutter
• Same thing for the maps. We saw how to properly transform and project world maps in class, yet you don't make use of that here. Or even remove the background with theme_map() or theme_void(). Not exactly a clean look