28 Gapminder: Aging Europe

28.1 Introduction

In this project, you will recreate an approximation of the chart Hans Rosling shows in the video here:

• Presentation Zen, Hans Rosling: the zen master of presenting data, 2010-07-11

This image captures the 1961 version of the plot:

Make three versions of the chart, each showing a different year.

28.2 Data files

There are four files from https://www.gapminder.org/data/ that you will need; these are in the “data” folder.

There are CSV files for the following:

• Population, total: “population_total.csv”

• Population, aged 60+: “population_aged_60plus_years_total_number.csv”

• Babies per woman (total fertility): “children_per_woman_total_fertility.csv”

In addition, there is an Excel file that you’ll need to use to get the region that each country is in.

• “Data Geographies - v1 - by Gapminder.xlsx”, sheet = “list-of-countries-etc”

28.3 References

For additional references, including examples of using {gganimate}, see the page for the capstone project Gapminder: 200 Countries, 200 Years.