Find a new primary data set

[nick-ulle]

The current data set, banknotes, is not ideal in several ways:

• Leads to various visualization problems (such as overplotting) when plotted with ggplot2's default settings, and in R Basics there usually isn't time to get into details of plot customization. This means we end up showing learners plots that are not impressive (if they're on the fence about switching to R) and also not well-crafted (perpetuating bad practices).
• Slightly too wide to print nicely on learners' screens.
• Not especially motivating.

This issue is to think about potential replacements for the banknotes data set.

[nick-ulle]

One possibility is the Women Elected Officials data from Center for American Women and Politics. This data set is only has a few columns, all of which are text or categorical. We can use frequencies, but this does limit what we can plot and what statistical summaries we can compute.