gapminder
An R data package providing an excerpt from Gapminder's global development data for teaching and examples.
What is gapminder?
gapminder is an R data package that provides a curated excerpt of the Gapminder dataset, containing country-level data on life expectancy, GDP per capita, and population over time. It solves the problem of finding a clean, real-world dataset for teaching data analysis and visualization in R, offering a structured tibble that is immediately usable without data wrangling.
R educators, data science instructors, and students learning data manipulation, visualization, or statistical analysis who need a reliable, well-documented dataset for examples and exercises.
Developers choose gapminder because it provides a standardized, tidy dataset specifically designed for teaching, with built-in country metadata and color schemes that simplify creating educational visualizations and analyses.
Overview
Excerpt from the Gapminder data, as an R data package and in plain text delimited form
Use Cases
Best For
- Teaching introductory data visualization with ggplot2 in R
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