Category: cartography
Everything filed under cartography.
Mapping Tornado Alley with R
Harry's thread and Observable post are great on their own and both show the power and utility of Observable javascript…
GeoJSON Version of CBC Quebec Ridings Hex Cartograms with Example Usage in R
The CBC covered the recent (as of the original post-time on this blog entry) Quebec elections and used a well-crafted hex grid map to display…
Quick Hit: Using the New Equal Earth Projection in R
In my semi-daily run of brew update I noticed that proj4 had been updated to 5.2. I kinda " squeee "'d since (as the release notes show ) the Equal Earth projection was added to it ( +proj=eqearth…
voteogram Is Now On CRAN
Earlier this year, I made a package that riffed off of ProPublica's really neat voting cartograms (maps) for the U.S. House and Senate. You can see one for disaster relief spending in the House and one for the ACA "Skinny Repeal" in the…
Plot the Vote: Making U.S. Senate & House Cartograms in R
Political machinations are a tad insane in the U.S. these days & I regularly hit up @ProPublica & @GovTrack sites (& sub to the GovTrack e-mail updates) as I try to be an informed citizen, especially since I've got a Senator and…
U.S. Drought Animations with the "Witch's Brew" (purrr + broom + magick)
This is another purrr -focused post but it's also an homage to the nascent magick package (R interface to ImageMagick) by…
Easier Composite U.S. Choropleths with albersusa
Folks who've been tracking this blog on R-bloggers probably remember this post where I showed how to create a composite U.S. map with an Albers projection (which is commonly referred to as AlbersUSA these days thanks to…
Nuclear Animations in D3
As I said, I'm kinda obsessed with the "nuclear" data set. So much so that I made a D3 version that's similar to the R version I made the other day. I tried not to code much today (too much Easter fun going on), so I left off the size &…
Zellingenach: A visual exploration of the spatial patterns in the endings of German town and village names in R
Moritz Stefaner started off 2016 with a very spiffy post on "a visual exploration of the spatial patterns in the endings of German town and village names". Moritz was exploring some new data processing & visualization tools for the post,…
World Map Panel Plots with ggplot2 2.0 & ggalt
James Austin (@awhstin) made some #spiffy 4-panel maps with base R graphics but also posited he didn't use ggplot2…