R Tidyverse / Ggplot Analysis and Visualization

R ggplot

This year I started participating in #TidyTuesday, a weekly activity where data visualization enthusiasts all explore the same dataset and create visualizations based on what we find interesting. For the week of 1/25/2022, we were provided with two datasets about boardgames' popularity. I used a PCA to determine natural groups of years with similar boardgamemechanics, then created word clouds for each mechanic as shown below. Github repo. Word clouds by year for popular board game mechanics