the Basics of Visualising Map Data in R using ggplot2
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SPEAKER
Dana Roemling (she/they) is a Ph.D. student in Applied Linguistics at the University of Birmingham. Their research interests are in forensic linguistics, language and law, sociolinguistics, and lavender linguistics. Their PhD focuses on dialect features in authorship profiling. Although they worked in IT before doing their PhD, they only really started programming during their PhD studies. Now they have grown to enjoy R.
You can find Dana on her personal web or on Twitter
https://danaroemling.com/
@danaroemling
Topic
This workshop is designed to provide you with the basics of visualising map data in R using ggplot2. The workshop will provide a brief introduction into mapping data, which is useful, for example, in regional dialectology or typology - or generally when your data is regionally distributed. We’ll focus on creating maps from scratch and mapping linguistic variables using R so that we can visualise and identify patterns in the data.
PREPARATION
The R packages we'll need are: maps, rworldmap, sf, tidyverse, dplyr
They can sometimes be tricky to install, so I suggest you try it beforehand.
The data and code we'll work with will be available here: https://github.com/danaroemling/mapping
ONLINE PROGRAMME
The workshop will be held online, starting on 5th April at 16:00 (UK time). Please join us via this Zoom link:
https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89852185657?pwd=VWRXRFhkWTVqK0FjOG1ZVm83VzhXUT09
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