This is a weekend exercise, using materials from a workshop offered by Harvard University's Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) program. The original workshop notes can be found on the IQSS website.
The end result:
At the end of the exercise, the workshop presented a graph on Corruption and Human Development Index originally created from the Economist and challenge the readers to recreate one as close as possible to the original economist graph.
The project is completed using R notebook, and exported to both HTML and PDF. All three files (Rmd, HTML and PDF) are available in this repo. At the end of the exercise, I have attempted to re-create the original graph from scratch using only the vanilla ggplot library (without the use of ggthemes or other theming library) and in the process showed how we can create a custom theme for our own projects.