Introduction to Mapping and Visualizing Social Data with R

IPUMS users may be interested in an upcoming webinar from the National Science Foundation’s Institute for Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment (I-GUIDE). The webinar will focus on utilizing the R Spatial Notebooks project to develop reproducible workflows for creating maps and other visualizations of IPUMS data and other open-source social and spatial data sources. Attendees will gain experience with commonly used mapping and visualization packages including ggplot2, ggmap, tmap, and sf in addition to other considerations for making great maps. All skill-levels and backgrounds are welcome. Register to attend.