Lesson 10

IS428 Visual Analytics for Business Intelligence

About

Weekly Session

Assignments

Visual Analytics Project

Course Resources

Visualising Geographical Data in R

Content

Handling Geospatial Data in R

• An introduction to simple features
• Introducing sf package
• sf Methods

Mapping Geospatial Data with R

• Selected popular mapping packages in R
• Introducing tmap package
• Layered Grammar of Thematic Map
  • Shape specification
    • Spatial object
    • Map projection
    • Bounding box
  • Layers
    • Aesthetics
    • Statistics
    • Scale
  • Facets
  • Creating Interactive Map: tmap method
  • Embedding map in Shiny: tmap method

tMap

• tmap: Thematic Maps in R
• tmap: get started!
• tmap: changes in version 2.0
• reproduction code from JSS article ‘tmap: Thematic Maps in R’
• tmap: thematic maps in R
• Package ‘tmap’

ggmap

• ggmap: Spatial Visualization with ggplot2
• How to plot basic maps with ggmap
• Map Plots Created With R And ggmap
• Geographic visualization with R’s ggmap

Leaflet

• leaflet: Create Interactive Web Maps with the JavaScript 'Leaflet' Library
• Leaflet for R

Others

• cartogram: Create Cartograms with R
• micromap: A Package for Linked Micromaps
• Linked Micromaps
• geofacet documentation