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Evan Tachovsky is data scientist, cartographer, and a product of Northeast Ohio. He is going to share how he used R to create the maps for the book "Cleveland in 50 Maps" from Belt Publishing.

Talk Summary:

  • A gentle introduction to spatial analysis in R using sf and the tidyverse.
  • Exploring a bit of the data scraping and munging required to build the datasets.
  • Producing publication quality maps with R and things to think about when collaborating with designers.

https://beltpublishing.com/products/cleveland-in-50-maps

Note: this talk will be recorded and posted on our YouTube channel.

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