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This hit #rstats today:

Has anyone made a dumbbell dot plot in #rstats, or better yet exported to @plotlygraphs using the API? https://t.co/rWUSpH1rRl

— Ken Davis (@ken_mke) October 23, 2015
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So, I figured it was worth a cpl mins to reproduce.

While the US gov did give the data behind the chart it was all the data and a pain to work with so I used WebPlotDigitizer to transcribe the points and then some data wrangling in R to clean it up and make it work well with ggplot2.

It is possible to make the top "dumbbell" legend in ggplot2 (but not by using a guide) and color the "All Metro Areas" text but that's an exercise left to the reader (totally doable and not much code, but not the point of the example).

library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)
library(scales)
library(ggplot2)
library(ggalt) # devtools::install_github("hrbrmstr/ggalt")
health <- read.csv("zhealth.csv", stringsAsFactors=FALSE,
header=FALSE, col.names=c("pct", "area_id"))
areas <- read.csv("zarea_trans.csv", stringsAsFactors=FALSE, header=TRUE)
health %>%
mutate(area_id=trunc(area_id)) %>%
arrange(area_id, pct) %>%
mutate(year=rep(c("2014", "2013"), 26),
pct=pct/100) %>%
left_join(areas, "area_id") %>%
mutate(area_name=factor(area_name, levels=unique(area_name))) -> health
setNames(bind_cols(filter(health, year==2014), filter(health, year==2013))[,c(4,1,5)],
c("area_name", "pct_2014", "pct_2013")) -> health
gg <- ggplot(health, aes(x=pct_2013, xend=pct_2014, y=area_name, group=area_name))
gg <- gg + geom_dumbbell(color="#a3c4dc", size=0.75, point.colour.l="#0e668b")
gg <- gg + scale_x_continuous(label=percent)
gg <- gg + labs(x=NULL, y=NULL)
gg <- gg + theme_bw()
gg <- gg + theme(plot.background=element_rect(fill="#f7f7f7"))
gg <- gg + theme(panel.background=element_rect(fill="#f7f7f7"))
gg <- gg + theme(panel.grid.minor=element_blank())
gg <- gg + theme(panel.grid.major.y=element_blank())
gg <- gg + theme(panel.grid.major.x=element_line())
gg <- gg + theme(axis.ticks=element_blank())
gg <- gg + theme(legend.position="top")
gg <- gg + theme(panel.border=element_blank())
gg
library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)
library(scales)
health <- read.csv("zhealth.csv", stringsAsFactors=FALSE,
header=FALSE, col.names=c("pct", "area_id"))
areas <- read.csv("zarea_trans.csv", stringsAsFactors=FALSE, header=TRUE)
health %>%
mutate(area_id=trunc(area_id)) %>%
arrange(area_id, pct) %>%
mutate(year=rep(c("2014", "2013"), 26),
pct=pct/100) %>%
left_join(areas, "area_id") %>%
mutate(area_name=factor(area_name, levels=unique(area_name))) %>%
mutate(color=rep(c("#0e668b", "#a3c4dc"), 26),
line_col="#a3c4dc") -> health
health[health$area_name=="All Metro Areas",]$color <- c("#bc1f31", "#e5b9a5")
health[health$area_name=="All Metro Areas",]$line_col <- "#e5b9a5"
gg <- ggplot(health)
gg <- gg + geom_path(aes(x=pct, y=area_name, group=area_id, color=line_col), size=0.75)
gg <- gg + geom_point(aes(x=pct, y=area_name, color=color), size=2.25)
gg <- gg + scale_color_identity()
gg <- gg + scale_x_continuous(label=percent)
gg <- gg + labs(x=NULL, y=NULL)
gg <- gg + theme_bw()
gg <- gg + theme(plot.background=element_rect(fill="#f7f7f7"))
gg <- gg + theme(panel.background=element_rect(fill="#f7f7f7"))
gg <- gg + theme(panel.grid.minor=element_blank())
gg <- gg + theme(panel.grid.major.y=element_blank())
gg <- gg + theme(panel.grid.major.x=element_line())
gg <- gg + theme(axis.ticks=element_blank())
gg <- gg + theme(legend.position="top")
gg <- gg + theme(panel.border=element_blank())
gg
area_id area_name
0 Houston
1 Miami
2 Dallas
3 San Antonio
4 Atlanta
5 Los Angeles
7 Tampa
8 Riverside, Calif.
9 Phoenix
10 Charlotte
11 San Diego
13 All Metro Areas
15 Chicago
16 New York
17 Denver
18 Washington, D.C.
20 Portland
21 St. Louis
22 Detroit
23 Philadelphia
24 Seattle
26 San Francisco
27 Baltimore
28 Pittsburgh
29 Minneapolis
30 Boston
22.209907307969008 0.19674900165782105
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18.86689466056366 1.159849440615588
24.347402225025796 1.3381434484772043
17.766163759396925 2.2095945114639974
20.81765006412328 2.3003054979199007
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9.955635029037943 17.245722507793847
9.226975570592955 18.221960399962466
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9.880094673075519 23.200116777361874
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12.13785984631265 24.11598494406156
7.694116297740564 26.12883045386773
10.86868802719244 26.14478307562377
8.52161945177199 27.112888258661858
6.2821528740785535 27.177011542191035
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7.420888550605261 28.162633329510268
5.693469851630191 29.983098562178736
8.061652191139517 29.14575274478933
3.725510640294443 30.254616355086593
4.16123617178784 30.256805930621738
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