TONIGHT WE VISUALIZE MORTGAGE RATES AFTER DARK. Last year I shared 10 amazing ways to visualize mortgage rates (and more ways and even more ways). In this post I have one more DATA VISUALIZATION (dataviz) for you.
I was putting together a presentation using remark.js via the xaringan R package (see my discussion of how to do this in this post) and decided to try a dark theme. The code below, modifies our mortgage rate code to make this graph:
R Code
We’re using the weekly average 30-year fixed mortgage rate as before (you can get from St Louis Federal Reserve Economic Database here).
In order to make our graph, I need to create my own theme, called theme_dark2 (ggplot2 has its own theme_dark, but I want a different one). I created my theme by modifying this theme.
The data
The data I’m going to use are estimates of weekly U.S. average 30-year fixed mortgage rates from the Primary Mortgage Market Survey from Freddie Mac. These data can be easily downloaded from the St. Louis Fred database here.
I have the data saved in a simple text file with a column for data, the mortgage rate, and helper columns week, month, and year, where week is the week number starting with the first week of the year.
Let’s load the data and create our theme function.
#load libraries
library(data.table, warn.conflicts = FALSE, quietly=TRUE)
library(tidyverse, warn.conflicts = FALSE, quietly=TRUE)
library(ggthemes, warn.conflicts = FALSE, quietly=TRUE)
library(scales, warn.conflicts = FALSE, quietly=TRUE)
library(extrafont, warn.conflicts = FALSE, quietly=TRUE)
library(gridExtra, warn.conflicts = FALSE, quietly=TRUE)
library(animation, warn.conflicts = FALSE, quietly=TRUE)
library(readxl,warn.conflicts = FALSE, quietly=TRUE)
##### Make theme: ######################################################
# modifed based on: https://gist.github.com/jslefche/eff85ef06b4705e6efbc
#########################################################################
theme_dark2 = function(base_size = 12, base_family = "Courier New") {
theme_grey(base_size = base_size, base_family = base_family) %+replace%
theme(
# Specify axis options
axis.line = element_blank(),
axis.text.x = element_text(size = base_size*0.8, color = "white", lineheight = 0.9),
axis.text.y = element_text(size = base_size*0.8, color = "white", lineheight = 0.9),
axis.ticks = element_line(color = "white", size = 0.2),
axis.title.x = element_text(size = base_size, color = "white", margin = margin(0, 10, 0, 0)),
axis.title.y = element_text(size = base_size, color = "white", angle = 90, margin = margin(0, 10, 0, 0)),
axis.ticks.length = unit(0.3, "lines"),
# Specify legend options
legend.background = element_rect(color = NA, fill = " gray10"),
legend.key = element_rect(color = "white", fill = " gray10"),
legend.key.size = unit(1.2, "lines"),
legend.key.height = NULL,
legend.key.width = NULL,
legend.text = element_text(size = base_size*0.8, color = "white"),
legend.title = element_text(size = base_size*0.8, face = "bold", hjust = 0, color = "white"),
legend.position = "right",
legend.text.align = NULL,
legend.title.align = NULL,
legend.direction = "vertical",
legend.box = NULL,
# Specify panel options
panel.background = element_rect(fill = " gray10", color = NA),
panel.border = element_rect(fill = NA, color = "white"),
panel.grid.major = element_line(color = "grey35"),
panel.grid.minor = element_line(color = "grey20"),
panel.spacing = unit(0.5, "lines"),
# Specify facetting options
strip.background = element_rect(fill = "grey30", color = "grey10"),
strip.text.x = element_text(size = base_size*0.8, color = "white"),
strip.text.y = element_text(size = base_size*0.8, color = "white",angle = -90),
# Specify plot options
plot.background = element_rect(color = " gray10", fill = " gray10"),
plot.title = element_text(size = base_size*1.2, color = "white",hjust=0,lineheight=1.25,
margin=margin(2,2,2,2)),
plot.subtitle = element_text(size = base_size*1, color = "white",hjust=0, margin=margin(2,2,2,2)),
plot.caption = element_text(size = base_size*0.8, color = "white",hjust=0),
plot.margin = unit(rep(1, 4), "lines")
)
}
########################################################################Now armed with our theme, we can make our plot.
Try first a static plot.
dt<- read_excel('data/rates.xlsx',sheet= 'rates')
dt$date<-as.Date(dt$date, format="%m/%d/%Y")
ggplot(data=filter(dt,date>="2016-03-10"),
aes(x=date,y=rate30,label=rate30))+
geom_line(size=1.05,color="#00B0F0")+theme_minimal()+
theme(legend.position="none")+
scale_x_date(date_breaks="2 month", date_labels="%b-%Y")+
scale_y_continuous(limits=c(3,4.4),breaks=seq(3,4.4,.1),sec.axis=dup_axis())+
geom_text(data=tail(dt,1),
nudge_x=3,nudge_y=0,hjust=-0.1,size=3,color="#00B0F0")+
geom_point(data=tail(dt,1),size=3,color="#00B0F0",alpha=0.75)+
labs(x="", y="",
title="30-year Fixed Mortgage Rate (%)",
subtitle="weekly average rates",
caption="@lenkiefer Source: Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey")+
theme_dark2()+
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Animate it
We can complete the gif by running this code:
# to make life easier (or at least more compatible with my earlier code!)
# convert to data.table()
dt<-data.table(dt)
# Get dates
dlist<-unique(dt[date>="2016-03-10",]$date)
N<-length(dlist)
# loop:
oopt = ani.options(interval = 0.2)
saveGIF({for (i in 1:N) {
g<-
ggplot(data=dt[date>="2016-03-10" & date<=dlist[i]],
aes(x=date,y=rate,label=rate))+
geom_line(size=1.05,color="#00B0F0")+theme_minimal()+
theme(legend.position="none")+
scale_x_date(date_breaks="2 month", date_labels="%b-%Y")+
scale_y_continuous(limits=c(3,4.4),breaks=seq(3,4.4,.1),sec.axis=dup_axis())+
geom_text(data=tail(dt[date==dlist[i]],1),
nudge_x=3,nudge_y=0,hjust=-0.1,size=3,color="#00B0F0")+
geom_point(data=tail(dt[date==dlist[i]],1),size=3,color="#00B0F0",alpha=0.75)+
labs(x="", y="",
title="30-year Fixed Mortgage Rate (%)",
subtitle="weekly average rates",
caption="@lenkiefer Source: Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey")+
theme_dark2()+
coord_cartesian(xlim=c(as.Date("2016-03-10"),as.Date("2017-05-15")), y=c(3.4,4.4))
print(g)
print(paste(i,"out of",N))
ani.pause()
}
for (i2 in 1:8) {
print(g)
ani.pause()
}
},movie.name="rate_04_13_2017 dark2.gif",ani.width = 650, ani.height = 400)