Welcome to this vignette!
You can load the package with this command
require(ggplot2)
require(ggBubbles)
Here we demonstrate the advantage of MiniBubble plots compared to traditional Bubbleplot in certain usecases with discrete data.
Please not that in this vignette we will use dplyr and tibble from tidyverse.
require(dplyr)
require(tibble)
First, we load a small example data
data(MusicianInterestsSmall)
which contains data from musicians about their experience in differente music genres they have with their music instruments.
head(MusicianInterestsSmall)
Instrument | Genre | Level |
---|---|---|
Piano | Jazz | Experienced |
Piano | Jazz | Experienced |
Piano | Jazz | Intermediate |
Piano | Jazz | Beginner |
Piano | Jazz | Interested |
Piano | Jazz | Interested |
The traditional bubble plot is able to portrait the amount of guitarrists or pianists able to play jazz or classical music by size and display the average experience level by colour coding.
ggplot(data = MusicianInterestsSmall %>%
group_by(Instrument, Genre) %>%
summarize(Count = n(), AvgLevel = mean(as.integer(Level))),
aes(x = Instrument, y = Genre, size = Count, col = AvgLevel)) +
geom_point() + theme_bw(base_size = 18) +
scale_colour_gradientn(
colours = rev(topo.colors(2)),
na.value = "transparent",
breaks = as.integer(MusicianInterestsSmall$Level) %>%
unique %>% sort,
labels = levels(MusicianInterestsSmall$Level),
limits = c(as.integer(MusicianInterestsSmall$Level) %>% min,
as.integer(MusicianInterestsSmall$Level) %>% max)) +
scale_size_continuous(range = c(3, 11))
From a data visualisation point of view, it is debateable how good point sizes are to display counts. However, in general we can agree that averages often hide a lot of useful information.
The MiniBubble plot allows to show each musician and their corresponding skill level individually:
ggplot(data = MusicianInterestsSmall,
aes(x = Instrument,
y = Genre,
col = Level)) +
geom_point(position = position_surround(), size = 4) +
scale_colour_manual(values = c("#00e5ff",
"#4694ff",
"#465aff",
"#2c00c9")) +
theme_bw(base_size = 18)
This is done by the position_surround()
function passed to the position
argument of geom_point
. Note, that only exact overlaps will be dodged. The points will surround the center in layers which will be filled clockwise.
Since each individual data point is shown seperately, you can also use shape
and fill
to show further features, as long the plot will not be overloaded with information.
Also, you can use geom_text(position = position_surround())
to overlay the points with text, or make the text appear in shiny when hovering.
MiniBubbleplot allows to show more features in a bubble plot.
The offset of the dodged points can be handed as parameters to position_surround()
.
ggplot(data = MusicianInterestsSmall,
aes(x = Instrument,
y = Genre,
col = Level)) +
geom_point(position = position_surround(offset = .2), size = 4) +
scale_colour_manual(values = c("#00e5ff",
"#4694ff",
"#465aff",
"#2c00c9")) +
theme_bw(base_size = 18)