AirCrash: Air Crash Data

In vcdExtra: 'vcd' Extensions and Additions

Description

Data on all fatal commercial airplane crashes from 1993–2015. Excludes small planes (less than 6 passengers) and non-commercial (cargo, military, private) aircraft.

Usage

data("AirCrash")

Format

A data frame with 439 observations on the following 5 variables.

Phase

phase of the flight, a factor with levels en route landing standing take-off unknown

Cause

a factor with levels criminal human error mechanical unknown weather

date

date of crash, a Date

Fatalities

number of fatalities, a numeric vector

Year

year, a numeric vector

Details

Phase of the flight was cleaned by combining related variants, spelling, etc.

Source

Originally from David McCandless, http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/plane-truth-every-single-commercial-plane-crash-visualized/, with the data at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjOUPqcIwvnjdEx2akx5ZjJXSk9oM1E3dWpqZFJ6Nmc&usp=drive_web#gid=1, downloaded April 14, 2015.

References

Rick Wicklin, http://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2015/03/30/visualizing-airline-crashes.html

Examples

data(AirCrash)
aircrash.tab <- xtabs(~Phase + Cause, data=AirCrash)
mosaic(aircrash.tab, shade=TRUE)

# fix label overlap
mosaic(aircrash.tab, shade=TRUE, 
       labeling_args=list(rot_labels=c(30, 30, 30, 30)))

# reorder by Phase
phase.ord <- rev(c(3,4,1,2,5))
mosaic(aircrash.tab[phase.ord,], shade=TRUE, 
       labeling_args=list(rot_labels=c(30, 30, 30, 30)), offset_varnames=0.5)

# reorder by frequency
phase.ord <- order(rowSums(aircrash.tab), decreasing=TRUE)
cause.ord <- order(colSums(aircrash.tab), decreasing=TRUE)
mosaic(aircrash.tab[phase.ord,cause.ord], shade=TRUE, 
       labeling_args=list(rot_labels=c(30, 30, 30, 30)))


library(ca)
aircrash.ca <- ca(aircrash.tab)
plot(aircrash.ca)

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