Bonus downloads: How to make color-coded thematic maps in R

Follow along with our R language mapping tutorial after downloading these bonus files

Executive Editor, Data & Analytics, Computerworld |

Register for free with our Insider program and get some downloads to go along with our story, "Create maps in R in 10 (fairly) easy steps."

Included in the zipped download:

computerworld_map_tutorial.R: An R script with step-by-step explanations as comments, so you can easily follow along with this tutorial

And sample data in the data subdirectory:

db_2014_us_county_5m.zip: A zipped shapefile from the U.S. Census Bureau of U.S. states and counties
NHD2016.xls & NHD2016.csv: File of cleaned 2016 New Hampshire Democratic primary results
NHDemocratic2016.xlsx: Original file of 2016 New Hampshire Democratic primary results from the New Hampshire Secretary of State's office
SCdegree.csv & SCdegree.xlsx: File of South Carolina counties and percent of adult population with a 4-year college degree or higher
SCGOP2016.csv: File of 2016 Republican primary results in South Carolina

Download the files below:

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R Mapping Tutorial Files

Files to accompany Computerworld Mapping in R tutorial. by Sharon Machlis

Sharon Machlis is Director of Editorial Data & Analytics at Foundry, where she works on data analysis and in-house editor tools in addition to writing. Her book Practical R for Mass Communication and Journalism was published by CRC Press. She was named Digital Analytics Association's 2021 Top (Data) Practitioner, winner of the 2023 Jesse H. Neal journalism award for best instructional content, 2014 Azbee national gold award for investigative reporting, and 2017 Azbee gold for how-to article, among other awards. You can find her on Mastodon at masto.machlis.com/@smach.

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