Complexity of Posts Within Political Subreddits

Explanation: Below is a summary of our dataset where you can see the total number of images scraped from political subreddits, the average and median extremity of the included subreddits, as well as the average and median complexity of all the images in the dataset. A mean score of .3401 is actually fairly low and informs you that many of the analyzed photos were relatively simple things such as screenshots of internet forums, twitter posts, or other reddit posts.

##  SubRedditName          Link           PoliticalAffiliation   Extremity    
##  Length:234         Length:234         Length:234           Min.   :1.000  
##  Class :character   Class :character   Class :character     1st Qu.:2.000  
##  Mode  :character   Mode  :character   Mode  :character     Median :2.000  
##                                                             Mean   :1.949  
##                                                             3rd Qu.:2.000  
##                                                             Max.   :3.000  
##    Complexity    
##  Min.   :0.0130  
##  1st Qu.:0.1542  
##  Median :0.2995  
##  Mean   :0.3401  
##  3rd Qu.:0.5080  
##  Max.   :0.8900

Extremity Count of Each Affiliation

Explanation: This graph displays the relation of posts on reddit pages that were classified by political affiliation - left, right, or central - with their corresponding extremity. There are three tiers of extremity levels. In the first, all three of the political affiliations are distributed fairly evenly. In the second, there are more overall posts but there are far less posts that are defined as central and more that are left and right; left having the most. In the third there are very few posts overall. Most are from the left with very few from central pages and almost none from the right.

Complexity of Images Within Each Affiliation Grouped by Extremity Level

Explanation: The graph below shows a set of boxplots for each level of extremity (1-3), where each individual boxplot corresponds to one of three political affiliations (left, right, center). The dots represent the complexity scores of individual photos, while the boxplots show you the quartiles and median for each political affiliation.

Note that the echo = FALSE parameter was added to the code chunk to prevent printing of the R code that generated the plot.