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Importing Shapefiles (01_06)

This lesson is called Importing Shapefiles (01_06), part of the Mapping with R course. This lesson is called Importing Shapefiles (01_06), part of the Mapping with R course.

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In this video we used two different data sources:

Counties in England and Wales: This dataset was obtained from the data.gov.uk services, specifically here
US 2020 Census Self-Response: This dataset is a version of the US Census shapefiles modified for comparing self-response rates between 2010 and 2020. There’s an overview of why this dataset exists here and the zip can be downloaded here.

The read_sf()function can be used to import all of the most commonly used shapefile formats.

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Course Content

34 Lessons

Welcome to Mapping with R (01_01)

Making Maps is Complex (01_02)

mapview for Quick Maps (01_03)

sf for Simple Features (01_04)

Turning Data Frames into sf Objects (01_05)

Importing Shapefiles (01_06)

Joining Geospatial Datasets (01_07)

Disambiguating Country Names (01_08)

Converting Addresses to Coordinates (01_09)

U.S.-Specific Datasets (01_10)

Advice on Finding International Datasets (01_11)

CRS and Projections: Geographic and Projected CRS (01_12)

CRS and Projections: How to Choose a CRS (01_13)

Introducing Raster GIS with raster and stars (01_14)

Basics of Using the raster Package (01_15)

ggplot2 Essentials (02_01)

Starting a Map in ggplot2 (02_02)

Labelling ggplot2 Maps (02_03)

Compare Locations/Events with Geobubble Charts (02_04)

Highlight a Region in a Country with ggplot2 (02_05)

Make a Choropleth Map of Discrete Variables with ggplot2 (02_06)

Make a Choropleth Map of Continuous Variables with ggplot2 (02_07)

Faceting Choropleth Maps with ggplot2 (02_08)

Visualize Raster Data with ggplot2 (02_09)

Adding Scale Bars and North Arrows with ggplot2 (02_10)

What is leaflet? (03_01)

Starting a Map in leaflet (03_02)

Necessary HTML for Labelling leaflet Maps (03_03)

Highlight a Region in a Country with leaflet (03_04)

Compare Locations/Events with Geobubble Charts in leaflet (03_05)

Make a Choropleth Map of Discrete Variables with leaflet (03_06)

Make a Choropleth Map of Continuous Variables with leaflet (03_07)

Visualize Raster Data with leaflet (03_08)

Wrapping Up Mapping with R