Pretty (Simple) Geospatial Data Visualization in R

Craft gorgeous gradients with ggplot2, rgdal, and maptools

Amanda LaForest
Towards Data Science
4 min readJun 26, 2020

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I recently wrote an introductory article to geospatial visualizations in R, which quickly became my most read article by a factor of 5 (thanks, btw!). It was fantastic seeing how interested people were in geospatial data visualization, because at this point it’s become one of my…

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Data Scientist & M.S. from UVA. Putting the elation in relational database management. I draw pretty graphs. 🌈 amawest.bio.link/