Topic 1: Most-visited museums in the world
Topic 1: Most-visited museums in the world
The next table shows the annual numbers of visitors for the top 10 most-visited museums in the world (refer to ‘See also’ section in the previous step). The same data is given in the following table to make it easier for you to input into RStudio.
| Museum | Number of Visitors (millions) |
|---|---|
| Palace Museum / Forbidden City (Beijing, China) | 20.0 |
| Louvre (Paris, France) | 9.3 |
| National Revolution Museum (Beijing, China) | 7.6 |
| National Museum of Natural History (Washington, D.C., USA) | 7.3 |
| Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (Washington, D.C., USA) | 6.7 |
| British Museum (London, UK) | 6.7 |
| National Gallery (London, UK) | 6.4 |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA) | 6.3 |
| Vatican Museums (Vatican City, Rome, Italy) | 6.2 |
| Tate Modern (London, UK) | 5.8 |
Answer the following questions:
- Without inspecting the numbers, use a suitable R code to extract the two most popular museums.
- Create a pie chart for this data. What are the perceived percentages of the Palace Museum and the Louvre?
- Create a bar plot for this data. Is it easy to see the percentages of the top two museums? How could you amend the bar plot to indicate the percentages more clearly?
- Without inspecting the numbers, is the modal category seen clearly in these graphs? How easy is it to compare the percentages of other museums? Overall, which graphical summary may be preferable for this data?
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