Togaware DATA MINING
Desktop Survival Guide
by Graham Williams
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Fluctuation Plot

A variation of a mosaic plot is the fluctuation plot. A fluctuation plot visualises two variable tabular data. They provide a better presentation than heatmaps.



> library(ggplot2)
> set.seed(42)
> diamonds[sample(nrow(diamonds), 20), 2:3]



            cut color
49345 Very Good     H
50545   Premium     H
15434     Ideal     F
44792     Ideal     E
34614     Ideal     E
27998   Premium     E
39728 Very Good     G
7263  Very Good     J
35433     Ideal     E
38025 Very Good     E
24687      Good     I
38782   Premium     H
50406   Premium     E
13775      Good     F
24930     Ideal     G
50691   Premium     F
52750   Premium     F
6336    Premium     J
25613   Premium     E
30214   Premium     E



> table(diamonds$cut,diamonds$color)



               D    E    F    G    H    I    J
  Fair       163  224  312  314  303  175  119
  Good       662  933  909  871  702  522  307
  Very Good 1513 2400 2164 2299 1824 1204  678
  Premium   1603 2337 2331 2924 2360 1428  808
  Ideal     2834 3903 3826 4884 3115 2093  896



> print(ggfluctuation(table(diamonds$cut,diamonds$color)))

Image dmsurvivor-r:runderstand:fluctuation_plot



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