Tag: dataviz
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Obstetrical care in Iowa
The third article in Kalen McCain’s excellent series on maternal healthcare in southeastern Iowa, Barriers aren’t limited to birthdays, features a map from numbered page 14 of ACCESS TO OBSTETRICAL CARE IN IOWA: A REPORT to the IOWA STATE LEGISLATURE – CALENDAR YEAR 2021 [PDF]. This got me wondering what it would take to reproduce…
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California County Seats
I had some fun today getting the location of each county seat in California. You can see the code here if you’re curious: https://github.com/fadend/county_seat_coords. The data are pulled from Wikipedia’s List of counties in California. I plotted them going through the tutorial here: https://eriqande.github.io/rep-res-eeb-2017/map-making-in-R.html. (Very nice!) Here’s my ugly R code for doing that, shamelessly…