15: Geospatial in R

Due Date

This assignment is due on Monday, December 8th

All assignments are due on D2L by 11:59pm on the due date. Late work is not accepted. You do not need to submit your .rmd file - just the properly-knitted PDF. All assignments must be properly rendered to PDF using Latex. Make sure you start your assignment sufficiently early such that you have time to address rendering issues. Come to office hours or use the course Slack if you have issues. Using an Rstudio instance on posit.cloud is always a feasible alternative. Remember, if you use any AI for coding, you must comment each line with your own interpretation of what that line of code does.

This assignment builds from the Example for this week. Your assignment is to make a map of some interesting census variable for your home county. If your home county is outside the US, you can use any county you like.

Exercise 1 of 1

  1. Load up all the necessary packages

  2. Find the FIPS for your home county

  3. Choose a variable you’re interested in. Finding census variables can be tricky!

  4. Using load_variables, find the best representation of that variable

  5. Make a map of that variable at the census tract level