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Air Crash Data

AirCrash.Rd

Data on all fatal commercial airplane crashes from 1993--2015. Excludes small planes (less than 6 passengers) and non-commercial (cargo, military, private) aircraft.

Usage

data("AirCrash")

Format

A data frame with 439 observations on the following 5 variables.

Phase

phase of the flight, a factor with levels en route landing standing take-off unknown

Cause

a factor with levels criminal human error mechanical unknown weather

date

date of crash, a Date

Fatalities

number of fatalities, a numeric vector

Year

year, a numeric vector

Details

Phase of the flight was cleaned by combining related variants, spelling, etc.

Source

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.

References

Rick Wicklin, http://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2015/03/30/visualizing-airline-crashes.html

Examples

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)
plot(aircrash.ca)