We've looked before at how you can annotate geographical maps using R, but what if you want to overlay data onto a globe of the Earth, using Google Earth? The RKML package for R (from the OmegaHat project) allows you to do just that, by providing a high-level interface from R to generate KML files, which in turn are...
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U.S. Unemployment Data: Animated Choropleth Maps
I was curious about creating maps with ggplot2 - and was happy to find that great minds have long since tackled this topic. Folks who are interested in how to learn about R (and ggplot2) might be interested in the process. (There should be ...
Notes from useR! 2010
R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics, used by a growing number of economists, engineers, and data analysts every day at Google. We’ve even published our R Style Guide on Google Code. The R community has...
Notes from useR! 2010
R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics, used by a growing number of economists, engineers, and data analysts every day at Google. We’ve even published our R Style Guide on Google Code. The R community has...
Maps, Geocoding, and the R User Conference 2010
The R User Conference 2010 is scheduled for July 20-23, 2010. Wanna know where?Although there are more sophisticated methods of mapping with R the maps package makes mapping activities straightforward. A bit of XML and Google...
Visualizing the census
Now that the 2010 survey is over, you might be wondering what we can learn from the data when the aggregated results are published. For a good guide to the kinds of questions you'll be able to answer, take a look at StatJump, where you can see tables and charts of the results of the 2000 census: population data...
Happy 4th of July
library(maps)states <- data.frame(map("state", plot=FALSE))plot(states, type = "l", col = "navy", axes = FALSE, xlab = "", ylab = "")title("Happy 4th of July", col.main = "red")
Maps without map packages
LATITUDE + LONGITUDE + OVERPLOTTING FIX = MAPS Decision Science News is always learning stuff from colleague, physicist, mathlete, and all-around computer whiz Jake Hofman. Today, it was a quick and clean way to make nice maps in R without using any map packages: just plot the latitude and longitude of your data points (e.g.
What I need to know…
is maps and geographical data representation in R. In case you’re curious too this is a good study material from R-Bloggers : maps ; geographical ; spatial Ok. This could be a tweet rather than a post…
Statistical Analysis and Visualization of the Drug War in Mexico
On December 11, 2006 Felipe Calderon, as the first significant act of his presidency, sent the army to his home state of Michoacan. He claimed that it was to regain control of territories lost to the drug cartels, and indeed, a new cartel had started operating in Michocan. But the fact that he won the election by the slim margin of...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
