Tidy Tuesday: Adoptable Dogs

Tidy Tuesday for week fifty-one of 2019 was all about dogs available for adoption in the United States through PetFinder.

The data was collected by Amber Thomas for her piece Finding Forever Homes which appeared in The Pudding in October 2019.

There were three data sets. One data set about dogs that were moved between states for adoption. Another described where dogs were orginally found. The third gave detailed information about every dog.

I created two plots from this data.

The first plot shows how imports and exports vary by state. I used Bob Rudis’s {statebins} package Rudis (2020) for this plot as well as Thomas Lin Pedersen’s {patchwork} package Pedersen (2020).

You can see that lots of dogs are exported from southern states, particularly Texas. You can also see that lot of dogs are imported to northern states like Washington and New York.

The second plot shows the one hundred most popular dog names among all dogs available for adoption.

The colour of a name in this plot indicates whether it has one, two or three syllables. I used Tyler Rinker’s {syllable} package Rinker (2017) to do this.

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