Data clean and visualisation of soviet space dogs data.
The data has been sourced from here. Collated by Duncan Geere.
dogs_clean.R
and flights_clean.R
perform some data cleaning/tidying steps to prepare the data for plotting. Makes use of tidyr
, stringr
, lubridate
and janitor
.
dog_flight_plot.R
creates the data visualisation saved as soviet_space_dogs.png
. Built with ggplot2
, ggforce
, ggtext
and showtext
.
The cleaning steps output the cleaned data as CSV files:
dogs_clean.csv
flights_clean.csv
Feel free to create your own data viz!
Blog post on the cleaning/tidying steps can be found here: https://davidsmale.netlify.com/portfolio/soviet-space-dogs-part-1/
Blog post on the data visualisation can be found here: https://davidsmale.netlify.com/portfolio/soviet-space-dogs-part-2/