17.Spatial analysis01.Geographic information systems - sporedata/researchdesigneR GitHub Wiki

Geographical information systems are used to display health information distributed across different geographic areas.

• Common packages
• Choroplethr: Simplify the Creation of Choropleth Maps in R [1] [2]

1. Books

   • Geocomputation with R
   • Spatio-Temporal Statistics with R
   • Displaying Time Series, Spatial, and Space-Time Data with R

2. Articles

   • Improve your map visualization by scaling the areas to visually convey underlying data
   • Visualization of Brain Statistics With R Packages ggseg and ggseg3d

• Static maps
  • Cloropleth maps - source

• Thematic maps - source

• Hexbin maps - source

• Cartogram map - source

• Connecting map - source

• Bubble map - source

• Geofacet map - source

• Dynamic maps - are useful in situations where the relationship among variables progresses over time, with the dynamic map demonstrating these changes.

  • Dynamic world map showing spots over time - source

    

  • Dynamic state map showing counties with years when a certain condition was first detected - source

    

• sdatools::worldMap

[1] Lamstein A, and Johnson BP. Choroplethr: Simplify the Creation of Choropleth Maps in R. R package version. 2015.

[2] Choroplethr. 2019.

[3] rayshader. 2019.