Euge: University Points

Eugene

We looked at university choices last week, and the way in which different third level courses have different entry requirements. Using the same data, I thought it might be fun to see which were the most sought after universities. It’s also an excuse to play with geomtextpath, a package I haven’t used before but that looks like it has some nifty features for ggplot2 work.

We get the data as in the university choices post.

This gives a data frame something like this:

z %>% filter(college %in% c("TR", "TU", "MH")) %>% 
  ggplot(aes(x = final, colour = name)) +
  geom_textpath(aes(label = name), stat = "density",
                size = 12, fontface = 2, hjust = 0.2, vjust = 0.3,
                show.legend = F, linewidth = 2, family = "Fuzzy Bubbles") +
  scale_color_okabe_ito() +
  theme_clean() +
  theme(axis.title.y = element_blank(),
        axis.text.y = element_blank()) +
  coord_cartesian(xlim = c(200, 700))

Looks like a clear pecking order, with Trinity College Dublin top of the pile, colleges like Maynooth University in the middle, and the newer colleges like Technological University Dublin catching up.

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@misc{eugene2021university,
  author = {Eugene, },
  title = {Euge: University Points},
  url = {https://www.fizzics.ie/posts/2021-12-15-university-points/},
  year = {2021}
}