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Practical Predictive Analytics
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Practical Predictive Analytics

by Ralph Winters
June 2017
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
576 pages
15h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Plotting the data with the trend lines

Now that we have the trend coefficients, we will use ggplot to first plot enrollment for all of the 24 categories, and then create a second set of plots which adds the trend line based upon the linear coefficients we have just calculated.

Code notes: facet_wrap will order the plots by the value of variable z, which was assigned to the coefficient rank. Thus, we can get to see the categories with declining enrollment first, ending with the categories having the highest trend in enrollment from the period 1999-2012.

I like to assign the variables that I will be changing to standard variable names, such as x, y, and z, so that I can remember their usage (for example, variable x is always the x variable, ...
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ISBN: 9781785886188Supplemental Content