Visualizing spatial data II
Overview
- Define shapefiles and import spatial data using the
sf
package - Draw maps using
ggplot2
andgeom_sf()
- Change coordinate systems
- Generate appropriate color palettes to visualize additional dimensions of data
Before class
Class materials
Mapping data in The Truthful Art by Alberto Cairo - excellent chapter on designing data maps with lots of examples. Though really the entire book is useful if you do a lot of work with data visualizations of any type.