BA_degrees: BA degrees awarded by field of study

In clauswilke/dviz.supp: Supporting materials for Claus Wilke's data visualization book

Description

BA degrees awarded by field of study, from 1970 to 2015.

Usage

BA_degrees

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 594 rows and 5 columns.

References

National Center for Education Statistics, https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d16/tables/dt16_322.10.asp

Examples

# find degrees with highest average percent
BA_degrees %>% group_by(field) %>%
  summarize(mean_perc = mean(perc)) %>%
  arrange(desc(mean_perc)) -> BA_top

top_fields <- filter(BA_top, mean_perc>0.04)$field

BA_top_degrees <- filter(BA_degrees, field %in% top_fields) %>%
  mutate(field = factor(field, levels = top_fields)) %>%
  arrange(field)

ggplot(BA_top_degrees, aes(year, perc)) + 
  geom_line() + 
  facet_wrap(~field, labeller = label_wrap_gen(width = 25), ncol = 3)

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