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Exploring Polling Data in R

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Polls can be an incredibly valuable tool for understanding politics and are a central component of campaign analysis from policy experts, commentators, and even the candidates themselves. In this course you’ll explore the uses of polling data by examining summary statistics and visualizations of polls from the 2016 Republican and Democratic primaries using base R plots, the ggplot2 package, and the googleVis package.
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    Exploring Polling Data in R

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    This chapter will show you how to explore, refine, and visualize a sample of polling data from the 2016 primaries. You'll start with simple visualizations using base R commands before proceeding to more complicated plots in the ggplot2 package. The final exercises teach you how to generate maps in R using the maps package and the googleVis package.

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    Reading the polls
    50 xp
    Looking under the hood
    100 xp
    Visualizing polling trends
    100 xp
    Improving poll data quality
    100 xp
    Visualizing the refined data
    100 xp
    The fifty-state strategy
    100 xp
    Stronger predictions
    50 xp
    Mapping polling data
    100 xp
    Interactive maps using googleVis
    100 xp
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