#frequency plot

Just saw the e-mail from PDS saying the Gapminder data set was incorrect regarding the polity score and a new data set has been posted. My updated frequency charts are posted below. (The box plots and histograms of the other variables are still valid). The first plot uses mostly default parameters for the hist() command in R. I spiced-up the second frequency chart (same data) with a bit of color.

A couple of graphic formatting commands I do use on a regular basis came from Andrew Gelman's blog Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science. Gelman is a professor of statistics and political science at Columbia Univeristy. The formatting commands are:

par (mar=c(3,3,2,1), mgp=c(2,.7,0), tck=-.01)

OK, figured out how to get the plots into the text entry of the blog. Here's the first frequency chart:

I've also made box plots of the other three variables I'm exploring. These are continuous variables and don't lend themselves to bar charts. I'll post those box plots and some histograms in a bit.

Thanks to those who walked me through getting images into Tumblr.

Here's the same plot in color.