Challenge 5

Introduction to Visualization

library(tidyverse)
library(ggplot2)

knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE, warning=FALSE, message=FALSE)

Challenge Overview

Today’s challenge is to:

1. read in a data set, and describe the data set using both words and any supporting information (e.g., tables, etc)
2. tidy data (as needed, including sanity checks)
3. mutate variables as needed (including sanity checks)
4. create at least two univariate visualizations

• try to make them “publication” ready
• Explain why you choose the specific graph type

5. Create at least one bivariate visualization

• try to make them “publication” ready
• Explain why you choose the specific graph type

R Graph Gallery is a good starting point for thinking about what information is conveyed in standard graph types, and includes example R code.

(be sure to only include the category tags for the data you use!)

Read in data

Read in one (or more) of the following datasets, using the correct R package and command.

• AB_NYC_2019.csv ⭐⭐⭐

data <- read_csv("_data/AB_NYC_2019.csv")
data

# A tibble: 48,895 × 16
      id name      host_id host_…¹ neigh…² neigh…³ latit…⁴ longi…⁵ room_…⁶ price
   <dbl> <chr>       <dbl> <chr>   <chr>   <chr>     <dbl>   <dbl> <chr>   <dbl>
 1  2539 Clean & …    2787 John    Brookl… Kensin…    40.6   -74.0 Privat…   149
 2  2595 Skylit M…    2845 Jennif… Manhat… Midtown    40.8   -74.0 Entire…   225
 3  3647 THE VILL…    4632 Elisab… Manhat… Harlem     40.8   -73.9 Privat…   150
 4  3831 Cozy Ent…    4869 LisaRo… Brookl… Clinto…    40.7   -74.0 Entire…    89
 5  5022 Entire A…    7192 Laura   Manhat… East H…    40.8   -73.9 Entire…    80
 6  5099 Large Co…    7322 Chris   Manhat… Murray…    40.7   -74.0 Entire…   200
 7  5121 BlissArt…    7356 Garon   Brookl… Bedfor…    40.7   -74.0 Privat…    60
 8  5178 Large Fu…    8967 Shunic… Manhat… Hell's…    40.8   -74.0 Privat…    79
 9  5203 Cozy Cle…    7490 MaryEl… Manhat… Upper …    40.8   -74.0 Privat…    79
10  5238 Cute & C…    7549 Ben     Manhat… Chinat…    40.7   -74.0 Entire…   150
# … with 48,885 more rows, 6 more variables: minimum_nights <dbl>,
#   number_of_reviews <dbl>, last_review <date>, reviews_per_month <dbl>,
#   calculated_host_listings_count <dbl>, availability_365 <dbl>, and
#   abbreviated variable names ¹​host_name, ²​neighbourhood_group,
#   ³​neighbourhood, ⁴​latitude, ⁵​longitude, ⁶​room_type

Briefly describe the data

This dataset contains approximately 49000 and 16 columns of information about various AirBNB units advertised in New York City in 2019. It contains information about the host name, neighborhood and neighborhood group, property type, price, and location for each property.

Tidy Data (as needed)

We can do some tidying because we can see that there are some N/A values in the reviews per month.Because there are no reviews yet, we can replace the N/A values with 0.

replace_na(data, list(reviews_per_month = 0))

# A tibble: 48,895 × 16
      id name      host_id host_…¹ neigh…² neigh…³ latit…⁴ longi…⁵ room_…⁶ price
   <dbl> <chr>       <dbl> <chr>   <chr>   <chr>     <dbl>   <dbl> <chr>   <dbl>
 1  2539 Clean & …    2787 John    Brookl… Kensin…    40.6   -74.0 Privat…   149
 2  2595 Skylit M…    2845 Jennif… Manhat… Midtown    40.8   -74.0 Entire…   225
 3  3647 THE VILL…    4632 Elisab… Manhat… Harlem     40.8   -73.9 Privat…   150
 4  3831 Cozy Ent…    4869 LisaRo… Brookl… Clinto…    40.7   -74.0 Entire…    89
 5  5022 Entire A…    7192 Laura   Manhat… East H…    40.8   -73.9 Entire…    80
 6  5099 Large Co…    7322 Chris   Manhat… Murray…    40.7   -74.0 Entire…   200
 7  5121 BlissArt…    7356 Garon   Brookl… Bedfor…    40.7   -74.0 Privat…    60
 8  5178 Large Fu…    8967 Shunic… Manhat… Hell's…    40.8   -74.0 Privat…    79
 9  5203 Cozy Cle…    7490 MaryEl… Manhat… Upper …    40.8   -74.0 Privat…    79
10  5238 Cute & C…    7549 Ben     Manhat… Chinat…    40.7   -74.0 Entire…   150
# … with 48,885 more rows, 6 more variables: minimum_nights <dbl>,
#   number_of_reviews <dbl>, last_review <date>, reviews_per_month <dbl>,
#   calculated_host_listings_count <dbl>, availability_365 <dbl>, and
#   abbreviated variable names ¹​host_name, ²​neighbourhood_group,
#   ³​neighbourhood, ⁴​latitude, ⁵​longitude, ⁶​room_type

Apart from this, It appears that the data is suitable for the analysis I intend to conduct and does not require any modification.

Univariate Visualizations

1. We can look into a breakdown of where the listings are located by borough. We find that Manhattan would have the most since it attracts the most tourists. Brooklyn has the second highest.

ggplot(data, aes(neighbourhood_group, fill = room_type)) + geom_bar() +
  theme_bw() +
  labs(title = "Air BnB by Location ", y = "Number of Listins", x = "Borough")

2. We can also analyze the property price distribution to get a good idea of how expensive or cheap each property is. We see that most properties are lesser than 500$.

  ggplot(data,aes(x=price)) + 
  geom_histogram() + 
  xlim(0, 1500) + 
  xlab("Price ($)") + 
  ylab("Number of properties") + 
  ggtitle("Histogram of property price distribution in dataset")

Bivariate Visualization(s)

Below, we try to analyze the how price and minimum nights stayed relate:

ggplot(data) + 
  geom_point(mapping = aes(x = minimum_nights, y = price)) + 
  labs(x = "Minimum Nights",
       y = "Price ($)",
       title = "Price vs Minimum Nights Stayed")