Visualizing Data Patterns with
Micromaps
Comparative Micromaps Resources
Zip file with R Scripts, Boundaries Files, and Data
Additional Notes
Disclaimer: Everything is provided without warranty.
Feel free to adapt the
scripts for use with your data.
Copyright Notes
1. Without
substantial modifications, such as using different data,
copyrights to the book’s graphics produced using
resources here still belong to CRC Press. If you want to publish
the book’s examples, be sure to get permission.
2. The scripts and functions provided
here are not to be copyrighted
by anyone else. One goal is to
develop an R package for public use.
Comparative Micromaps Zip file
Use R script “Examples.r”
in each folder to quickly generate the figures.
This makes sure required functions and
boundaries are read first.
|
Folders |
Figures |
Example
Reminder |
|
ChangeRow_States |
6.1
= 1.1, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6 |
6.1
Unemployment |
|
RiseFallRows_States |
6.2,
6.7 |
6.2
Homicide young males |
|
TwowayLayouts_States |
6.8,
6.9 |
6.8 Sex by Year Comparative
Mortality Ratios WF lung Cancer |
|
DifferenceSliders_Countries_States |
6.3,
6.10 |
6.3
Yield Spread for Countries |
|
RiseFallRows_Parishes |
7.12, 7.13, 7.14 |
All
: Pre and Post Katrina
Population Changes |
Notes
1. Accessing New times series
data
Access Data using CDC’s PC
Wonder
Example R scripts to read resulting files and
produce comparative micromaps to be posted soon.
2. The dynamic Java version by Zhang and Carr
No
date for posting yet.