Category: maps
Everything filed under maps.
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…
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…
52Vis Week #3 - Waste Not, Want Not
The Wall Street Journal did a project piece a while back in the "Waste Lands: America's Forgotten Nuclear Legacy". They dug through Department of Energy and CDC data to provide an overview of the lingering residue of this toxic time in…
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…
Primary Plotting
My wife tricked me into a partial-weekend project to try to get all the primary/caucus results to-date on a map (the whole us). This is challenging since not all states use counties as boundaries for aggregate results. I'm still piecing…
Replicating NatGeo's "Proper" Earthquake Map in R
I saw this post over at NatGeo over the weekend and felt compelled to replicate…
A Package Full o' Pirates & Makin' Interactive Pirate Maps in arrrrrRstats
Avast, me hearties! It's time four t' annual International Talk Like a Pirate Day #rstats…
Introducing the nominatim geocoding package
In the never-ending battle for truth, justice and publishing more R packages than Oliver, I whipped out an R package for the OpenStreetMap Nominatim API. It actually hits the MapQuest Nominatim Servers for most of the calls, but the…
Making Static/Interactive Voronoi Map Layers In ggplot/leaflet
Despite having shown various ways to overcome D3 cartographic envy , there are always more examples that can cause the green monster to rear it's ugly…