This week, Ellis Hughes and I break down code that Jared Braggins wrote to construct waffle plots describing plant extinction in Africa using data from TidyTuesday.
For those that are unfamiliar, a waffle plot is a great way for showing counts of data and the relative contribution of one value to a group. This type of plot lends itself well to the number of targets each receiver on an NFL team receives relative to other receivers on that team. So, we took Jared’s idea, used the {waffle} package, and constructed our own waffle plot. We then extended this out into an interactive {shiny} app so that the user can select a team of interest and get returned back a waffle plot for that team along with a team of data providing the receiver statistics for that given season. Finally, we provide the option to download the output as a PDF report directly from the {shiny} app. When it is all done, it looks a little something like this:
To watch the screen cast, CLICK HERE.
To obtain our code, CLICK HERE.