Visualizing time series data II

Lecture 9

Dr. Greg Chism

University of Arizona
INFO 526 - Fall 2024

Announcements

• Don’t forget to watch the videos for Monday’s lecture!

Setup

# load packages
if(!require(pacman))
  install.packages("pacman")

pacman::p_load(countdown,
               tidyverse,
               janitor,
               colorspace,
               broom,
               fs)

# set theme for ggplot2
ggplot2::theme_set(ggplot2::theme_minimal(base_size = 14))

# set width of code output
options(width = 65)

# set figure parameters for knitr
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  fig.width = 7, # 7" width
  fig.asp = 0.618, # the golden ratio
  fig.retina = 3, # dpi multiplier for displaying HTML output on retina
  fig.align = "center", # center align figures
  dpi = 300 # higher dpi, sharper image
)

Working with dates

AQI levels

The previous graphic in tibble form, to be used later…

aqi_levels <- tribble(
  ~aqi_min, ~aqi_max, ~color,    ~level,
  0,        50,       "#D8EEDA", "Good",
  51,       100,      "#F1E7D4", "Moderate",
  101,      150,      "#F8E4D8", "Unhealthy for sensitive groups",
  151,      200,      "#FEE2E1", "Unhealthy",
  201,      300,      "#F4E3F7", "Very unhealthy",
  301,      400,      "#F9D0D4", "Hazardous"
)

AQI data

• Source: EPA’s Daily Air Quality Tracker

• 2016 - 2022 AQI (Ozone and PM2.5 combined) for Tucson, AZ core-based statistical area (CBSA), one file per year

• 2016 - 2022 AQI (Ozone and PM2.5 combined) for San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA CBSA, one file per year

2022 Tucson, AZ

tuc_2022 <- read_csv(
  here::here("data/tucson/ad_aqi_tracker_data-2022.csv"),
  na = c(".", "")
)

tuc_2022 <- tuc_2022 |>
  janitor::clean_names() |>
  mutate(date = mdy(date))

tuc_2022

# A tibble: 365 × 11
  date       aqi_value main_pollutant site_name site_id    source
  <date>         <dbl> <chr>          <chr>     <chr>      <chr> 
1 2022-01-01        40 PM2.5          GERONIMO  04-019-11… AQS   
2 2022-01-02        55 PM2.5          GERONIMO  04-019-11… AQS   
3 2022-01-03        55 PM2.5          GERONIMO  04-019-11… AQS   
# ℹ 362 more rows
# ℹ 5 more variables: x20_year_high_2000_2019 <dbl>,
#   x20_year_low_2000_2019 <dbl>,
#   x5_year_average_2015_2019 <dbl>, date_of_20_year_high <chr>,
#   date_of_20_year_low <chr>

Visualizing Tucson AQI

Another visualization of Tucson AQI

Recreate the following visualization.

Highlights

• The lubridate package is useful for converting to dates from character strings in a given format, e.g. mdy(), ymd(), etc.

• The colorspace package is useful for programmatically darkening / lightening colors

• scale_x_date: Set date_labels as "%b %y" for month-2 digit year, "%D" for date format such as %m/%d/%y, etc. See help for strptime() for more.

• scale_color_identity() or scale_fill_identity() can be useful when your data already represents aesthetic values that ggplot2 can handle directly. By default doesn’t produce a legend.

Calculating cumulatives

Cumulatives over time

• When visualizing time series data, a somewhat common task is to calculate cumulatives over time and plot them

• In our example we’ll calculate the number of days with “good” AQI (\(\le\) 50) and plot that value on the y-axis and the date on the x-axis

Calculating cumulatives

Step 1. Arrange your data

tuc_2022 |>
  select(date, aqi_value) |>
  filter(!is.na(aqi_value)) |>
  arrange(date)

# A tibble: 365 × 2
  date       aqi_value
  <date>         <dbl>
1 2022-01-01        40
2 2022-01-02        55
3 2022-01-03        55
4 2022-01-04        48
5 2022-01-05        50
# ℹ 360 more rows

Calculating cumulatives

Step 2. Identify good days

tuc_2022 |>
  select(date, aqi_value) |>
  filter(!is.na(aqi_value)) |>
  arrange(date) |>
  mutate(good_aqi = if_else(aqi_value <= 50, 1, 0))

# A tibble: 365 × 3
  date       aqi_value good_aqi
  <date>         <dbl>    <dbl>
1 2022-01-01        40        1
2 2022-01-02        55        0
3 2022-01-03        55        0
4 2022-01-04        48        1
5 2022-01-05        50        1
# ℹ 360 more rows

Calculating cumulatives

Step 3. Sum over time

tuc_2022 |>
  select(date, aqi_value) |>
  filter(!is.na(aqi_value)) |>
  arrange(date) |>
  mutate(
    good_aqi = if_else(aqi_value <= 50, 1, 0),
    cumsum_good_aqi = cumsum(good_aqi)
  )

# A tibble: 365 × 4
  date       aqi_value good_aqi cumsum_good_aqi
  <date>         <dbl>    <dbl>           <dbl>
1 2022-01-01        40        1               1
2 2022-01-02        55        0               1
3 2022-01-03        55        0               1
4 2022-01-04        48        1               2
5 2022-01-05        50        1               3
# ℹ 360 more rows

Plotting cumulatives

• Plot
• Code

tuc_2022 |>
  select(date, aqi_value) |>
  filter(!is.na(aqi_value)) |>
  arrange(date) |>
  mutate(
    good_aqi = if_else(aqi_value <= 50, 1, 0),
    cumsum_good_aqi = cumsum(good_aqi)
  ) |>
  ggplot(aes(x = date, y = cumsum_good_aqi, group = 1)) +
  geom_line() +
  scale_x_date(date_labels = "%b %Y") +
  labs(
    x = NULL, y = "Number of days",
    title = "Cumulative number of good AQI days (AQI < 50)",
    subtitle = "Tucson, AZ",
    caption = "\nSource: EPA Daily Air Quality Tracker"
  ) +
  theme(plot.title.position = "plot")

Detrending

Detrending

• Detrending is removing prominent long-term trend in time series to specifically highlight any notable deviations

• Let’s demonstrate using multiple years of AQI data

Multiple years of Tucson, AZ data

tuc_files <- fs::dir_ls(here::here("data/tucson"))
tuc_files

/Users/gchism/Desktop/INFO-526-F24/slides/09/data/tucson/ad_aqi_tracker_data-2017.csv
/Users/gchism/Desktop/INFO-526-F24/slides/09/data/tucson/ad_aqi_tracker_data-2018.csv
/Users/gchism/Desktop/INFO-526-F24/slides/09/data/tucson/ad_aqi_tracker_data-2019.csv
/Users/gchism/Desktop/INFO-526-F24/slides/09/data/tucson/ad_aqi_tracker_data-2020.csv
/Users/gchism/Desktop/INFO-526-F24/slides/09/data/tucson/ad_aqi_tracker_data-2021.csv
/Users/gchism/Desktop/INFO-526-F24/slides/09/data/tucson/ad_aqi_tracker_data-2022.csv
/Users/gchism/Desktop/INFO-526-F24/slides/09/data/tucson/ad_aqi_tracker_data-2023.csv

Reading multiple files

tuc <- read_csv(tuc_files, na = c(".", ""))

tuc <- tuc |>
  janitor::clean_names() |>
  mutate(
    date = mdy(date),
    good_aqi = if_else(aqi_value <= 50, 1, 0)
  ) |>
  filter(!is.na(aqi_value)) |>
  arrange(date) |>
  mutate(cumsum_good_aqi = cumsum(good_aqi), .after = aqi_value)

tuc

# A tibble: 2,392 × 13
  date       aqi_value cumsum_good_aqi main_pollutant site_name  
  <date>         <dbl>           <dbl> <chr>          <chr>      
1 2017-01-01        38               1 Ozone          SAGUARO PA…
2 2017-01-02        40               2 Ozone          SAGUARO PA…
3 2017-01-03        38               3 Ozone          SAGUARO PA…
4 2017-01-04        38               4 Ozone          SAGUARO PA…
5 2017-01-05        32               5 Ozone          SAGUARO PA…
# ℹ 2,387 more rows
# ℹ 8 more variables: site_id <chr>, source <chr>,
#   x20_year_high_2000_2019 <dbl>, x20_year_low_2000_2019 <dbl>,
#   x5_year_average_2015_2019 <dbl>, date_of_20_year_high <chr>,
#   date_of_20_year_low <chr>, good_aqi <dbl>

Plot trend since 2016

• Plot
• Code

tuc |>
  ggplot(aes(x = date, y = cumsum_good_aqi, group = 1)) +
  geom_smooth(method = "lm", color = "pink") +
  geom_line() +
  scale_x_date(
    expand = expansion(mult = 0.02),
    date_labels = "%Y"
  ) +
  labs(
    x = NULL, y = "Number of days",
    title = "Cumulative number of good AQI days (AQI < 50)",
    subtitle = "Tucson, AZ",
    caption = "\nSource: EPA Daily Air Quality Tracker"
  ) +
  theme(plot.title.position = "plot")

`geom_smooth()` using formula = 'y ~ x'

Detrend

Step 1. Fit a simple linear regression

m <- lm(cumsum_good_aqi ~ date, data = tuc)

m

Call:
lm(formula = cumsum_good_aqi ~ date, data = tuc)

Coefficients:
(Intercept)         date  
  -10644.57         0.62  

Detrend

Step 2. Augment the data with model results (using broom::augment())

tuc_aug <- augment(m)

tuc_aug

# A tibble: 2,392 × 8
  cumsum_good_aqi date       .fitted .resid    .hat .sigma
            <dbl> <date>       <dbl>  <dbl>   <dbl>  <dbl>
1               1 2017-01-01 -0.574    1.57 0.00167   23.9
2               2 2017-01-02  0.0457   1.95 0.00167   23.9
3               3 2017-01-03  0.666    2.33 0.00167   23.9
4               4 2017-01-04  1.29     2.71 0.00166   23.9
5               5 2017-01-05  1.91     3.09 0.00166   23.9
# ℹ 2,387 more rows
# ℹ 2 more variables: .cooksd <dbl>, .std.resid <dbl>

Detrend

Step 3. Divide the observed value of cumsum_good_aqi by the respective value in the long-term trend (i.e., .fitted)

tuc_aug <- tuc_aug |>
  mutate(ratio = cumsum_good_aqi / .fitted, .after = .fitted)


tuc_aug

# A tibble: 2,392 × 9
  cumsum_good_aqi date       .fitted ratio .resid    .hat .sigma
            <dbl> <date>       <dbl> <dbl>  <dbl>   <dbl>  <dbl>
1               1 2017-01-01 -0.574  -1.74   1.57 0.00167   23.9
2               2 2017-01-02  0.0457 43.7    1.95 0.00167   23.9
3               3 2017-01-03  0.666   4.51   2.33 0.00167   23.9
4               4 2017-01-04  1.29    3.11   2.71 0.00166   23.9
5               5 2017-01-05  1.91    2.62   3.09 0.00166   23.9
# ℹ 2,387 more rows
# ℹ 2 more variables: .cooksd <dbl>, .std.resid <dbl>

Visualize detrended data

• Plot
• Code

tuc_aug |>
  ggplot(aes(x = date, y = ratio, group = 1)) +
  geom_hline(yintercept = 1, color = "gray") +
  geom_line() +
  scale_x_date(
    expand = expansion(mult = 0.1),
    date_labels = "%Y"
  ) +
  labs(
    x = NULL, y = "Number of days\n(detrended)",
    title = "Cumulative number of good AQI days (AQI < 50)",
    subtitle = "Tucson, AZ",
    caption = "\nSource: EPA Daily Air Quality Tracker"
  ) +
  theme(plot.title.position = "plot")

Air Quality in Tucson

barely anything interesting happening!

let’s look at data from somewhere with a bit more “interesting” air quality data…

Read in multiple years of SF data

sf_files <- fs::dir_ls(here::here("data/san-francisco"))

sf <- read_csv(sf_files, na = c(".", ""))

sf <- sf |>
  janitor::clean_names() |>
  mutate(
    date = mdy(date),
    good_aqi = if_else(aqi_value <= 50, 1, 0)
  ) |>
  filter(!is.na(aqi_value)) |>
  arrange(date) |>
  mutate(cumsum_good_aqi = cumsum(good_aqi), .after = aqi_value)

sf

# A tibble: 2,557 × 13
  date       aqi_value cumsum_good_aqi main_pollutant site_name  
  <date>         <dbl>           <dbl> <chr>          <chr>      
1 2016-01-01        32               1 PM2.5          Durham Arm…
2 2016-01-02        37               2 PM2.5          Durham Arm…
3 2016-01-03        45               3 PM2.5          Durham Arm…
4 2016-01-04        33               4 PM2.5          Durham Arm…
5 2016-01-05        27               5 PM2.5          Durham Arm…
# ℹ 2,552 more rows
# ℹ 8 more variables: site_id <chr>, source <chr>,
#   x20_year_high_2000_2019 <dbl>, x20_year_low_2000_2019 <dbl>,
#   x5_year_average_2015_2019 <dbl>, date_of_20_year_high <chr>,
#   date_of_20_year_low <chr>, good_aqi <dbl>

Plot trend since 2016

• Plot
• Code

sf |>
  ggplot(aes(x = date, y = cumsum_good_aqi, group = 1)) +
  geom_smooth(method = "lm", color = "pink") +
  geom_line() +
  scale_x_date(
    expand = expansion(mult = 0.07),
    date_labels = "%Y"
  ) +
  labs(
    x = NULL, y = "Number of days",
    title = "Cumulative number of good AQI days (AQI < 50)",
    subtitle = "San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA",
    caption = "\nSource: EPA Daily Air Quality Tracker"
  ) +
  theme(plot.title.position = "plot")

`geom_smooth()` using formula = 'y ~ x'

Detrend

1. Fit a simple linear regression

m_sf <- lm(cumsum_good_aqi ~ date, data = sf)

2. Augment the data with model results

sf_aug <- augment(m_sf)

3. Divide the observed value of cumsum_good_aqi by the respective value in the long-term trend (i.e., .fitted)

sf_aug <- sf_aug |>
  mutate(ratio = cumsum_good_aqi / .fitted, .after = .fitted)

Visualize detrended data

• Plot
• Code

sf_aug |>
  ggplot(aes(x = date, y = ratio, group = 1)) +
  geom_hline(yintercept = 1, color = "gray") +
  geom_line() +
  scale_x_date(
    expand = expansion(mult = 0.07),
    date_labels = "%Y"
  ) +
  labs(
    x = NULL, y = "Number of days\n(detrended)",
    title = "Cumulative number of good AQI days (AQI < 50)",
    subtitle = "San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA",
    caption = "\nSource: EPA Daily Air Quality Tracker"
  ) +
  theme(plot.title.position = "plot")

Detrending

• In step 2 we fit a very simple model

• Depending on the complexity you’re trying to capture you might choose to fit a much more complex model

• You can also decompose the trend into multiple trends, e.g. monthly, long-term, seasonal, etc.