cartography in R part four
Welcome to part four of my cartography in R series. In this post, we’ll download and process the state park data before adding it to the base map created in part II.
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cartography in R part three
This is part three of my cartography in R series. If you are just finding this, I suggest taking a look at part I and part II first.
In this post, I will download and process the National Park data. Once that’s done, I’ll add it to the base map I created in part II.
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cartography in R part two
This is a continuation of my previous post where I walked through how to download and modify shapefile data. I also showed how to shift Alaska and Hawaii so they are closer to the continental usa.
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cartography in R part one
Twitter is a great resource for engaging with the academic community. For example, I saw this Tweet by PhD Genie asking users to name one positive skill learned during their PhD. I love this question for a number of reasons. First, it helps PhDs reframe their experience so it’s applicable outside of academia - which can help when applying to jobs. Second, it’s really cool to see what skills other people have learned during their program.
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dvc (data version control)
Version control is helpful when you want to track your project’s changes. However, GitHub has one major (yet, understandable) shortcoming: file size. The free version of GitHub will warn you if your file is over 50MB and completely reject your push if the file is over 100MB. This is a huge problem when you’re working with shapefiles (.shp) which contain the geographic coordinates necessary for cartography. “Officially” there are three ways around GitHub’s file size limits, but I have a clear favorite.
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github website
Building off my post about using Git & GitHub, this post is about using the GitHub website to initialize repos and get URLs from existing repos to clone them.
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github desktop
This is part of my tutorial series on using Git and GitHub. In particular, this guide is about using GitHub’s desktop app for creating and managing repos. You can download the app here..
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git & github
Arguably one of the best things you can do before starting a PhD is invest time in learning how to properly use version control. With version control, you can track, save, and revert changes to any kind of project. There are several options available, but I’m partial to Git & GitHub. Even if you never touch a piece of code, version control is very helpful.
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hello
This area will not be a real blog, in the sense that it will probably not have regular updates.
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