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Exercise

Shifting Alaska and Hawaii geometry

Analysts will commonly want to map data for the entire United States by state or county; however, this can be difficult by default as Alaska and Hawaii are distant from the continental United States. A common solution is to rescale and shift Alaska and Hawaii for mapping purposes, which is supported in tidycensus. You'll learn how to do this in this exercise.

Instructions
100 XP
  • Use the tidycensus geography argument to request median home value data by state.
  • Use the shift_geo parameter to tell tidycensus to return shifted and re-scaled geometry for Alaska and Hawaii.
  • Plot your new dataset.