1) Can we include more countries?
This may be beyond the scope of mapcan
2) How does this project fall within the purpose of the grant? How does it help fight the threat to democracy in Canada?
At fundamental level, provides researchers of Canadian democracy with tools. Also, these maps can be useful to general audiences to convey information in a more accurate way than they may find with traditional choropleth maps. Aaron you phrased the justification better.
3) 3-D maps with spikes is another way for visualization
This may be beyond what R can do?
4) Stata?
I am not sure it is possible to do this in Stata. As I understand, Stata is not known for it's data visualization capabilities. We have strived to make mapcan easy to use in R, so it should hopefully be possible for the Stata user to migrate to R to make geographic visualizations.
5) Merge with other types of data (other than seats won by parties, population, etc.) so that they can be visualized too
This is possible, I used seats won, population, foreign born population as examples. These data are included in the package for illustrative purposes and to create the vignettes. Perhaps we should make it more clear that mapcan is meant to be used with external data, and perhaps we should make it more straightforward to merge data.
1) Can we include more countries? This may be beyond the scope of mapcan
2) How does this project fall within the purpose of the grant? How does it help fight the threat to democracy in Canada? At fundamental level, provides researchers of Canadian democracy with tools. Also, these maps can be useful to general audiences to convey information in a more accurate way than they may find with traditional choropleth maps. Aaron you phrased the justification better.
3) 3-D maps with spikes is another way for visualization This may be beyond what R can do?
4) Stata? I am not sure it is possible to do this in Stata. As I understand, Stata is not known for it's data visualization capabilities. We have strived to make mapcan easy to use in R, so it should hopefully be possible for the Stata user to migrate to R to make geographic visualizations.
5) Merge with other types of data (other than seats won by parties, population, etc.) so that they can be visualized too This is possible, I used seats won, population, foreign born population as examples. These data are included in the package for illustrative purposes and to create the vignettes. Perhaps we should make it more clear that mapcan is meant to be used with external data, and perhaps we should make it more straightforward to merge data.