Applying design guidelines to slides with {xaringanthemer}

At a recent R-Ladies Seattle meetup, Silvia Canelón gave a great presentation on getting {xaringan} slides set up and deployed with GitHub pages for easy sharing. We didn’t...

How I Think About Map Design: Rural/Suburban/Urban Map

I recently designed a few maps during the 30 day map challenge. Each day during November has a different prompt and then cartographers across the world can post maps...

Reproducible Cartography Tips in R: Water Lines

Following up on my previous post on inner glows, I am going to talk about water lines. This is a style that uses similar calculations for a similar goal,...

Reproducible Cartography Tips in R: Inner Glow

Libraries to load library(osmdata) # gathering data library(tidyverse) # wrangling data...

NYT-style urban heat island maps

One of my favorite strategies for learning more about data visualization is to try to recreate other work. This is especially true for maps! I recently came across a New...