Category: maps
Everything filed under maps.
Plot Me Like a Hurricane (a.k.a. animating historical North Atlantic basin tropical storm tracks)
Markus Gessman (@MarkusGesmann) did a beautiful job Visualising the seasonality of Atlantic windstorms using small multiples, which was inspired by both a post by Arthur Charpentier (@freakonometrics) on using Markov spatial processes to…
Overcoming D3 Cartographic Envy With R + ggplot
When I used one of the Scotland TopoJSON files for a recent post , it really hit me just how much D3 cartography envy I had/have as an R user. Don't get me wrong, I can conjure up D3 maps pretty well [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and the utility of an…
Charting/Mapping the Scottish Vote with R (an rvest/dplyr/tidyr/TopoJSON/ggplot tutorial)
The BBC did a pretty good job live tracking the Scotland secession vote, but I really didn't like the color scheme they chose and decided to use the final tally site as the basis for another tutorial using the tools from the Hadleyverse…
Points, Polygons and Power Outages
Most of my free coding time has been spent tweaking a D3-based live power outage tracker for Central Maine Power customers (there's also a woefully less-featured Shiny app for it, too). There is some R associated with the D3 vis, but it's…
One More Time…Mapping Maine Power Outages with D3
It started with a local R version and migrated to a Shiny version and is now in full D3 glory…
Open Campgrounds In Maine During The Stupid Shutdown
Don't let the morons in Congress stop you from visiting our fair state during this beautiful, colorful autumn season. Below is a Google Maps view of known, open campgrounds that will let you experience the best our state has to offer this…