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.
Este ejercicio forma parte del curso
Analyzing US Census Data in R
Instrucciones del ejercicio
- Use the tidycensus geography argument to request median home value data by state.
- Use the
shift_geoparameter to tell tidycensus to return shifted and re-scaled geometry for Alaska and Hawaii. - Plot your new dataset.
Ejercicio interactivo práctico
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# Get a dataset of median home values from the 1-year ACS
state_value <- ___(geography = ___,
___ = "B25077_001",
___ = "acs1",
geometry = ___,
___ = TRUE)
# Plot the dataset to view the shifted geometry
___(state_value["estimate"])