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GDP components across …

A study of GDP components over time and among countries In this example, I will be examining the GDP components of select countries across time. The data is extracted from the United Nations’ National Accounts Main Aggregates Database, which contains estimates of total GDP and its components for all …

Global Warming …

Climate change and temperature anomalies In this example, we draw upon data from the Combined Land-Surface Air and Sea-Surface Water Temperature Anomalies in the Northern Hemisphere at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. For this study, I use the base period of 1951-1980, as stipulated by …

Political contributions …

California Contributors plots In this exercise, I plot the amounts raised in terms of political contributions by the top 10 candidates within their respective top 10 cities in California. The data used was from the year 2016. Join dataframes # Make sure you use vroom() as it is significantly faster …