Reverse-engineering, theory

How could the authors of the 2016 WHO TB report have created the following plots? Assume that each plot is based on one or several suitably crafted dataset(s), i.e., that the data has been transformed in advance to support this particular plot. Answer the following questions for each plot:

  1. What layers (geoms) are used?
  2. Which variables are mapped to which aesthetics?
  3. Can you identify manual aesthetics (i.e., aesthetics that are unchanged for all observations?)
  4. What statistical transformations, if any, have been applied?
  5. What positional adjustments, if any, have been applied?
  6. If an image contains more than one graph, explain the mechanism.
  7. What does each observation in the plotting dataset represent?
  8. Do you notice details about the plot which you can’t explain yet?

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