Maurer, Karsten; Osthus, Dave; Loy, Adam A tale of four cities: exploring the soul of State College, Detroit, Milledgeville and Biloxi. (English) Zbl 1505.62279 Comput. Stat. 34, No. 4, 1465-1487 (2019). Summary: Can data help us explore and expose the soul of the community? This was the challenge posed by the 2013 Data Exposition. The Knight Foundation, in cooperation with Gallup, furnished data from 43,000 people over 3 years (2008–2010) in 26 communities, which we explored in an effort to discover variables associated with community attachment. Our analysis focused on four cities that stood out after our initial exploration of the data set: State College, PA; Detroit, MI; Milledgeville, GA; and Biloxi, MS. We present our use of survey-weighted binned scatterplots to graphically explore the association between an individual’s community attachment and perceived economic outlook. Additionally, we present a few other analyses we found interesting during our initial exploration which we view as a collection of “short stories”. Cited in 1 Document MSC: 62-08 Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics Keywords:2013 ASA Data Exposition; exploratory data analysis; survey data; reproducible research; statistical graphics; binned scatterplots; Knight Foundation Software:R; ggplot2; plyr; knitr; gridExtra PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{K. Maurer} et al., Comput. Stat. 34, No. 4, 1465--1487 (2019; Zbl 1505.62279) Full Text: DOI References: [1] Auguie B (2012) gridExtra: functions in grid graphics. http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=gridExtra, R package version 0.9.1 [2] Bennett J (2013) Central state closing to mental health patients. Salon. http://www.gpb.org/news/2010/01/20/central-state-closing-to-mental-health-patients. Accessed 18 July 2013 [3] Davey M, Walsh MW (2013) Billions in debt, detroit tumbles into insolvency. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/19/us/detroit-files-for-bankruptcy.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0. Accessed 18 July 2013 [4] Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan, LLP (2012) Report of the special investigative counsel regarding the actions of the Pennsylvania State University related to the child sexual abuse committed by Gerald A. Sandusky. Penn State University, Board of Trustees [5] Hofmann H, Wickham H, Cook D (2019) The 2013 data expo of the American Statistical Association. Comput Stat (to appear) · Zbl 1505.62188 [6] Korn EL, Graubard BI (1998) Scatterplots with survey data. Am Stat 52(1):58-69 [7] R Core Team (2013) R: a language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. http://www.R-project.org/ [8] Reich R (2013) Income inequality ruined detroit. Salon https://www.salon.com/2013/07/22/income_inequality_ruined_detroit_partner/. accessed 18 July 2013 [9] Unwin A, Theus M, Hofmann H (2006) Graphics of large datasets: visualizing a million. Springer, New York · Zbl 1118.62003 [10] Wickham H (2009) ggplot2: elegant graphics for data analysis. Springer, New York · Zbl 1170.62004 [11] Wickham H (2011) The split-apply-combine strategy for data analysis. J Stat Softw 40(1):1-29 [12] Xie Y (2013) Dynamic documents with R and knitr. Chapman and Hall/CRC, Boca Raton This reference list is based on information provided by the publisher or from digital mathematics libraries. Its items are heuristically matched to zbMATH identifiers and may contain data conversion errors. In some cases that data have been complemented/enhanced by data from zbMATH Open. This attempts to reflect the references listed in the original paper as accurately as possible without claiming completeness or a perfect matching.