California Transit Payments

Setting up R Packages

Plot Theme

Show the Code
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74491138/ggplot-custom-fonts-not-working-in-quarto

# Chunk options
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  fig.width = 7,
  fig.asp = 0.618, # Golden Ratio
  # out.width = "80%",
  fig.align = "center"
)
### Ggplot Theme
### https://rpubs.com/mclaire19/ggplot2-custom-themes

theme_custom <- function() {
  font <- "Roboto Condensed" # assign font family up front

  theme_classic(base_size = 14) %+replace% # replace elements we want to change

    theme(
      panel.grid.minor = element_blank(), # strip minor gridlines
      text = element_text(family = font),
      # text elements
      plot.title = element_text( # title
        family = font, # set font family
        size = 20, # set font size
        face = "bold", # bold typeface
        hjust = 0, # left align
        # vjust = 2                #raise slightly
        margin = margin(0, 0, 10, 0)
      ),
      plot.subtitle = element_text( # subtitle
        family = font, # font family
        size = 14, # font size
        hjust = 0,
        margin = margin(2, 0, 5, 0)
      ),
      plot.caption = element_text( # caption
        family = font, # font family
        size = 8, # font size
        hjust = 1
      ), # right align

      axis.title = element_text( # axis titles
        family = font, # font family
        size = 10 # font size
      ),
      axis.text = element_text( # axis text
        family = font, # axis family
        size = 8
      ) # font size
    )
}

# Set graph theme
theme_set(new = theme_custom())
#

Introduction

This dataset is the result of a research study on payment options for people using public transit in California.
The dataset is available on Dataset Dryad:

Pike, Susan (2022). Transit payment preferences of unbanked passengers. Dataset Dryad. https://doi.org/10.25338/B8R04T

And a brief 2-pager on the research methodology is here.

Yes, peasants, you should read such stuff from other very different domains!

Read the Data

Data Dictionary

Quantitative Variables

Write in.

Qualitative Variables

Write in.

Observations

Write in.

Data Munging

Munged Data

Summarize and Prepare the Data

Let’s label the data variables…

tibble [204 × 5] (S3: tbl_df/tbl/data.frame)
 $ phone.wifi    : num [1:204] 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 ...
  ..- attr(*, "label")= Named chr "Wi_Fi access?"
  .. ..- attr(*, "names")= chr "phone.wifi"
  ..- attr(*, "labels")= Named num [1:2] 1 2
  .. ..- attr(*, "names")= chr [1:2] "No" "Yes"
 $ phone.money   : num [1:204] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 ...
  ..- attr(*, "label")= Named chr "Ways to add money?"
  .. ..- attr(*, "names")= chr "phone.money"
  ..- attr(*, "labels")= Named num [1:2] 1 2
  .. ..- attr(*, "names")= chr [1:2] "No" "Yes"
 $ phone.identity: num [1:204] 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 2 ...
  ..- attr(*, "label")= Named chr "Identity Concerns?"
  .. ..- attr(*, "names")= chr "phone.identity"
  ..- attr(*, "labels")= Named num [1:2] 1 2
  .. ..- attr(*, "names")= chr [1:2] "No" "Yes"
 $ phone.fees    : num [1:204] 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
  ..- attr(*, "label")= Named chr "Monthly Fees?"
  .. ..- attr(*, "names")= chr "phone.fees"
  ..- attr(*, "labels")= Named num [1:2] 1 2
  .. ..- attr(*, "names")= chr [1:2] "No" "Yes"
 $ phone.balance : num [1:204] 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 ...
  ..- attr(*, "label")= Named chr "Knowing the balance?"
  .. ..- attr(*, "names")= chr "phone.balance"
  ..- attr(*, "labels")= Named num [1:2] 1 2
  .. ..- attr(*, "names")= chr [1:2] "No" "Yes"

Plot the Data

Task and Discussion

Complete the Data Dictionary. Select and Transform the variables as shown. Create the graph shown below and discuss the following questions:

  • Identify the type of charts
  • Identify the variables used for various geometrical aspects (x, y, fill…). Name the variables appropriately.
  • What activity might have been carried out to obtain the data graphed here? Provide some details.
  • What would be your recommendation to the Transport Company?
  • To the Phone Companies?
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