Air Crash Data
Data on all fatal commercial airplane crashes from 1993–2015. Excludes small planes (less than 6 passengers) and non-commercial (cargo, military, private) aircraft.
data("AirCrash")A data frame with 439 observations on the following 5 variables.
Phasephase of the flight, a factor with levels en route landing standing take-off unknown
Causea factor with levels criminal human error mechanical unknown weather
datedate of crash, a Date
Fatalitiesnumber of fatalities, a numeric vector
Yearyear, a numeric vector
Phase of the flight was cleaned by combining related variants, spelling, etc.
Originally from David McCandless, http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/plane-truth-every-single-commercial-plane-crash-visualized/, with the data at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OvDq4_BtbR6nSnnHnjD5hVC3HQ-ulZPGbo0RDGbzM3Q/edit?usp=drive_web, downloaded April 14, 2015.
data(AirCrash)
aircrash.tab <- xtabs(~Phase + Cause, data=AirCrash)
mosaic(aircrash.tab, shade=TRUE)
# fix label overlap
mosaic(aircrash.tab, shade=TRUE,
labeling_args=list(rot_labels=c(30, 30, 30, 30)))
# reorder by Phase
phase.ord <- rev(c(3,4,1,2,5))
mosaic(aircrash.tab[phase.ord,], shade=TRUE,
labeling_args=list(rot_labels=c(30, 30, 30, 30)), offset_varnames=0.5)
# reorder by frequency
phase.ord <- order(rowSums(aircrash.tab), decreasing=TRUE)
cause.ord <- order(colSums(aircrash.tab), decreasing=TRUE)
mosaic(aircrash.tab[phase.ord,cause.ord], shade=TRUE,
labeling_args=list(rot_labels=c(30, 30, 30, 30)))
library(ca)
aircrash.ca <- ca(aircrash.tab)
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