Project Development Halted

There won't be any more development on this project. It is feature complete from my perspective. Thank you all who have used and contributed to this project.

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tilegramsR

The goal of tilegramsR package is to provide R spatial objects in sf format representing various Tilegrams. The primary purpose of this data is to be used for data visualization. The objects provided can be plotted using base R plotting, ggplot2, or leaflet.

To know more about Tilegrams see this post and a this web app.

Usage

Installation

install.packages('tilegramsR')

OR Latest Development version

devtools::install_github('bhaskarvk/tilegramsR')

Example Code

Check out inst\examples folder, or see it in action at Rpubs: tilegramsR and Rpubs: Election Map.

Data

The package provides spatial objects in sf format.

Pitch Interactive Tilegrams

U.S.A

• sf_Pitch_US_Population_2016_v1: A sf object where each feature = 500K people
• sf_Pitch_US_Population_2016_v1.states: A sf object where each feature = 1 state of the U.S.A
• sf_Pitch_US_Population_2016_v1.centers: A sf object of centroids of each state of the U.S.A.

Germany

• sf_germany_constituencies: A sf object where each feature is a German Constituency
• sf_germany_constituencies.centers: A sf object of centroids of each German Constituency

France

• sf_france_regions_population: A sf object of French regions
• sf_france_regions_population.regions: A sf object of boundaries of French regions
• sf_france_regions_population.centers: A sf object of centroids of each French region
• sf_france_all_regions_population: A sf object of French Regions including overseas regions
• sf_france_all_regions_population.regions: A sf object of boundaries of all French regions
• sf_france_all_regions_population.centers: A sf object of centroids of each French Region including overseas regions
• sf_france_departments: A sf object of French departments
• sf_france_departments.centers: A sf object of centroids of each French department

fivethirtyeight's Electoral College Tilegram

• sf_FiveThirtyEightElectoralCollege: A sf object where each feature = 1 electoral college
• sf_FiveThirtyEightElectoralCollege.states: A sf object where each feature = 1 state of the U.S.A
• sf_FiveThirtyEightElectoralCollege.centers: A sf object of centroids of each state of the U.S.A.

NPR

Hexagon Tilegram

• sf_NPR1to1: A sf object where each feature = 1 state of the U.S.A
• sf_NPR1to1.centers: A sf object of centroids of each state of the U.S.A.

NPR.DemersCartogram

• sf_NPR.DemersCartogram: A sf object where each feature = 1 state of the U.S.A
• sf_NPR.DemersCartogram.centers: A sf object of centroids of each state of the U.S.A.

Daily KOS

Dual Hexagon Tilegram

• sf_DKOS_50_State_OuterHex_Tilemap_v1: A sf object where each feature = 1 state of the U.S.A
• sf_DKOS_50_State_InnerHex_Tilemap_v1: A sf object where each feature = 1 state of the U.S.A
• sf_DKOS_50_State_Hex_Tilemap_v1.centers: A sf object of centroids of each state of the U.S.A.

Congressional Districts Tilegram

• sf_DKOS_CD_Hexmap_v1.1: A sf object where each feature = 1 congressional District
• sf_DKOS_CD_Hexmap_v1.1.states: A sf object where each feature = 1 state of the U.S.A
• sf_DKOS_CD_Hexmap_v1.1.centers: A sf object of centroids of each state of the U.S.A.

Electoral College Tilegram

• sf_DKOS_Electoral_College_Map_v1: A sf object where each feature = 1 electoral college
• sf_DKOS_Electoral_College_Map_v1.states: A sf object where each feature = 1 state of the U.S.A
• sf_DKOS_Electoral_College_Map_v1.centers: A sf object of centroids of each state of the U.S.A.

Distorted Electoral College Tilegram

• sf_DKOS_Distorted_Electoral_College_Map_v1: A sf object where each feature = 1 state of the U.S.A
• sf_DKOS_Distorted_Electoral_College_Map_v1.centers: A sf object of centroids of each state of the U.S.A.

Washington Post Tilegram

• sf_WP: A sf object where each feature = 1 state of the U.S.A
• sf_WP.centers: A sf object of centroids of each state of the U.S.A.

Wall Street Journal Tilegram

• sf_WSJ: A sf object where each feature = 1 state of the U.S.A
• sf_WSJ.centers: A sf object of centroids of each state of the U.S.A.

Datamap.io.tilegram

• sf_Datamap.io.tilegram: A sf object where each feature = 1 state of the U.S.A
• sf_Datamap.io.tilegram.centers: A sf object of centroids of each state of the U.S.A.

As and when newer Tilegrams are made available they will be added to this package.

Credits

• Pitch Interactive for the excellent Tilegrams webapp and population tilegram.
• Daniel Donner of Daily KOS for Tilegrams.
• Ella Koeze for fivethirtyeight[.]com Tilegrams.
• Danny DeBelius & Brian Boyer for NPR's Hexagon Tilegrams.
• NPR Demers Cartogram
• Washington Post Tilegram
• Wall Street Journal Tilegram
• Datamap.io Tilegram

Code of Conduct

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.