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David Keyes
@dgkeyes.com

One small caveat: I'm not going to create the exact same chart because I don't have the exact code that the Financial Times used to wrangle the original source data. So, instead I'll use gapminder data to make a chart that very closely resembles the FT chart, but for a measure like life expectancy.

jennybc.github.ioData from GapminderAn excerpt of the data available at Gapminder.org. For each of 142 countries, the package provides values for life expectancy, GDP per capita, and population, every five years, from 1952 to 20...
David Keyes
@dgkeyes.com

Thanks. I looked a bit at the ParlGov GitHub and decided it would take me too long to figure out exactly how the FT had done its analysis. I didn't want to try to replicate it, do something slightly different, and have that look odd in the resulting data viz.

David Keyes
@dgkeyes.com

I thought about contacting John directly but didn't want to bother him since I'm sure he gets a ton of correspondence more important than this.

David Keyes
@dgkeyes.com

So my plan is to use gapminder data to create a piece of data viz that looks very similar, which I hope will serve the purpose of showing people how to create something like the FT graph in ggplot.