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DS4PS / usa-dorling-shapefiles

Dorling cartogram shapefiles for US counties (file for each state) and census tracts (file for each metro area).

http://ds4ps.org/usa-dorling-shapefiles/

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Dorling Maps #1

Open meliapetersen opened 4 years ago

meliapetersen commented 4 years ago

[x] Source harmonized Census data
[x] Create dorling cartogram based on City ID (lab 04 CPP 529)
[ ] Create loop to produce results for each city

lecy commented 4 years ago

Dorlings require shapefiles plus some variable to scale by. We will use population of each tract.

If you revisit the lab you will see that we use the tidycensus package, which allows to request populations and specify that you want the data to include the shapefiles (polygons for counties or tracts) in SF format.

After creating the maps you can link them to the full census data sources as long as you are using the same tracts as the harmonized data, which are based on 2010 tract geographies.