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Making Maps is Complex (01_02)

This lesson is called Making Maps is Complex (01_02), part of the Mapping with R course. This lesson is called Making Maps is Complex (01_02), part of the Mapping with R course.

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For more information about projections and how they work I highly recommend the Vox Media video I mentioned in the video - All Maps Are Wrong.

Every chart in the slides was created using R. Every static map was built with `ggplot2` and the interactive maps were made with a mix of the leaflet and mapview package. The 3D interactive globe was created using the threejs package.

You can see the RMarkdown document used to make the slides from this lesson (and all of the code used to make the maps) here.

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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