ggplot2: Plot replication challenge!

developed with Martin Frigaard

2025-08-09

Exercise

The purpose of this exercise is to re-create a publication-ready plot using your dplyr and ggplot2 skills.

Open the Financial Times article, Coronavirus tracked: the latest figures as countries start to reopen

There is also a PDF of the article titled, 2020-07-24-excess_mortality.pdf

The data you need is data/ft_excess_deaths.csv

Financial Times Figure

What’s this plot telling us?

What’s this plot telling us?

What’s this plot telling us?

What’s this plot telling us?

What’s this plot telling us?

Our Goal for the Recreation

Our Goal for the Recreation