By Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)
Wed 27 August 2014 | tags: cartography, maps, mapping, heatmap, cartogram, r, rstats, -- (permalink)

UPDATE The statebins package is now available on CRAN

I became enamored (OK, obsessed) with a recent visualization by the WaPo team which @ryanpitts tweeted and dubbed statebins:

Statebins! RT @kevinschaul: States with the most jobs lost or threatened because of trade. https://t.co/r1pJhudpz3 pic.twitter.com/eMozAgyEAb ...

By Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)
Fri 13 June 2014 | tags: rstats, r, datavis, wifi, cartography, maps, RCurl, -- (permalink)

This is the second of a two-part series. Part 1 set up the story and goes into how to discover, digest & reformat the necessary data. This concluding segment will show how to perform some basic visualizations and then how to build beautiful & informative density maps from the data and offer ...

By Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)
Fri 06 June 2014 | tags: rstats, r, datavis, wifi, cartography, maps, RCurl, -- (permalink)

This is the first of a two-part series. Part 1 sets up the story and goes into how to discover, digest & reformat the necessary data. Part 2 will show how to perform some basic visualizations and then how to build beautiful & informative density maps from the data and offer some ...

By Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)
Tue 21 January 2014 | tags: maps, d3, map, cartography, -- (permalink)

(This series of posts expands on a topic presented in Chapter 5 of Data Driven Security : The Book)

Cartographers (map makers) and infosec professionals both have the unenviable task of figuring out the best way to communite complexity to a diverse audience. Maps hold an unwarranted place of privilege in ...