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Tag: mapping

How Vox explained China’s Belt and Road Initiative

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is an infrastructure and development plan that will connect China to the rest of the world — an attempted renaissance of the historic Silk […]

April 13, 2020April 14, 2020 Sofia Bergmann Behind the scenes, Interviews

How Northeastern’s Samuel Scarpino built a live map tracking the coronavirus outbreak

Samuel Scarpino, an assistant professor in Northeastern’s Network Science Institute, built a map that monitors the outbreak of the coronavirus. He has collaborated with many other scientists to track the […]

February 10, 2020April 14, 2020 Anna Kracklauer Behind the scenes, Interviews

Mapping search data from Google Trends in R

This is a quick introduction on how to get and visualize Google search data with both time and geographical components using the R packages gtrendsR, maps and ggplot2. In this […]

July 23, 2018July 23, 2018 Peer Christensen Data Journalism in R, How to

How to plot state-by-state data on a map of the U.S. in R

While I usually turn to Carto.com or Datawrapper.de for my mapping needs, I decided to give R a whirl. The following tutorial will take craft beer awards data from Great […]

May 16, 2018June 11, 2018 Aleszu Bajak Data Journalism in R, How to

NodeXL’s Marc Smith on how mapping virtual crowd networks is relevant to journalism

As social scientists try to understand the online communities we form, journalists are missing out on stories that network theory could help unravel, according to Marc Smith, a sociologist and director […]

November 27, 2017November 27, 2017 Felippe Rodrigues Insights, Interviews
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