Improving the appearance of a stacked barchart with ggplot2, dplyr, and forcats (CC103)

Sometimes we don&have a choice in the type of data visualization format we use. Although a stacked barchart is not ideal, there are methods for improving the appearance of stacked barcharts. In this episode of Code Club, Pat uses ggplot2, dplyr, and forcats to show how to pool rare taxa and order the more abundant taxa to give a common anchor point on the y-axis to make comparisons. Do you have a figure that you would like to receive a critique or help improving? Let me know and I&be happy to arrange a guest appearance! You can also find complete tutorials for learning R with the tidyverse using... 0:00 Introduction 4:16 Pooling rare phyla 8:36 Specifying order of stacked bars w/ help of forcats 14:41 Changing colors and appearance of legend 17:33 Making bars sit on x-axis 18:15 Critique of figure 21:28 Recap