Dot plot challenge: Voting gender gaps in Europe
Getting and reshaping the data The Dot Plot The August edition of the Storytelling with Data challenge #SWDchallenge stars the dot plot. Here is a simple plot of the gender gap in voting in national elections using the most recent 8th Round of the European Social Survey, ESS. Getting and reshaping the data library(essurvey) # getting European Social Survey data library(tidyverse) # data cleaning and reshaping library(countrycode) # converting country codes to names library(ggplot2) # plots With the essurvey package the ESS data can be downloaded directly to R.