Assignment 2
Burkay Genç
April 24, 2018
Important to know
- This assignment is due in 1 week from announcement.
- Replace the author name with your name!
- You need to submit the RMD file before the due date. Do not submit HTML or PDF!
Question 1 (10 points)
For this assignment, you will be working with 2015 November Election Results from TUIK. Click here to download the data as an Excel document. Also, click here to download the assignment as an R Markdown document. You have to complete that document and return it to your instructor.
Your first task is to load the data into R. You are NOT allowed to change the XLS file in any way. All grading tests will be run on the original XLS file. If you assume a changed XLS file, than you risk losing full grades for the whole assignment.
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## 'data.frame': 258 obs. of 23 variables:
## $ Cevre : Factor w/ 86 levels "Adana","Adıyaman",..: 81 81 81 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 ...
## $ Tip : Factor w/ 3 levels "Toplam","Yurt Dışı",..: 1 3 2 1 3 2 1 3 2 1 ...
## $ Kayıtlı seçmen sayısı : num 56949009 54049940 2899069 1483448 1483448 ...
## $ Oy kullanan seçmen sayısı: num 48537695 47239370 1298325 1271890 1271890 ...
## $ Katılım oranı (%) : num 85.2 87.4 44.8 85.7 NA NA 85.2 NA NA 89 ...
## $ Geçerli oy sayısı : num 47840231 46555267 1284964 1290389 1255729 ...
## $ MILLET PARTİSİ : num 19714 19479 235 488 482 ...
## $ VATAN PARTİSİ : num 118803 114843 3960 2948 2841 ...
## $ CHP : num 12111812 11900875 210937 379690 374000 ...
## $ HAK-PAR : num 108583 106565 2018 2635 2581 ...
## $ SAADET PARTİSİ : num 325978 319543 6435 8175 8001 ...
## $ DSP : num 31805 31523 282 782 774 ...
## $ DP : num 69319 68862 457 1459 1447 ...
## $ BTP : num 49297 48585 712 1107 1088 ...
## $ MHP : num 5694136 5602469 91667 248655 246182 ...
## $ HKP : num 83057 81207 1850 2106 2056 ...
## $ LDP : num 26816 25163 1653 915 870 ...
## $ HDP : num 5148085 4914203 233882 153880 147572 ...
## $ BBP : num 253204 247354 5850 5028 4870 ...
## $ AK PARTİ : num 23681926 22959394 722532 481851 462362 ...
## $ KP : num 52527 50488 2039 658 603 ...
## $ DYP : num 14131 13676 455 12 0 ...
## $ BĞMZ : num 51038 51038 0 0 0 ...Question 2 (20 points)
Plot the election results (vote distribution as percentages among parties) for all votes. Your plot must display the parties in descending sorted order.
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Question 3 (20 points)
This time plot the percentages for “In country” and “Off Country” votes. Place them on the same plot, side by side to be able to see how parties are affected.
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Question 4 (30 points)
Draw a plot of each party’s number of winnings, i.e. the number of regions where they got the most votes among all parties. Only consider the total votes’ rows.
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Question 5 (30 points)
In this question you will be comparing the performances of top 4 parties, head to head.
- For each one of the top four parties:
- Draw a scatterplot of their vote percentages vs each of the other parties’ vote percentages, with respect to each region
- Use the party names as x and y labels
- Draw a line with parameters a as 0, and b as 1, color it blue, and make it 2 points wide
- Draw a line with parameters a as 0, and b as .5, color it green, and make it 2 points wide
- Draw a line with parameters a as 0, and b as 2, color it red, and make it 2 points wide
- Draw a line with parameters a as 20, and b as -1, color it orange, and make it 2 points wide
- All three plots for each party must be placed on a single plot
- Comment on the plots from an exploratory perspective. What do these plots tell you?
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