There was a recent email thread in the IsoStat listserv about a cool visualization that recently came out in the New York Times showing COVID-19 cases over time. This sparked a discussion about whether this was possible to recreate in R with ggplot, so of course I gave it a try! library(tidycensus)library(tidyverse)library(geofacet)library(zoo) The plot shows cases per 100,000 by state, so I first needed to pull population data. To do that I used the tidycensus package. (If you don’t have a...
