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This is a discussion on Choropleth Map R Challenge within the Analytic News Feeds forums, part of the Analytics category; FlowingData today has an article on how to make a choropleth map (a map with regions shaded by values of a measurement variable) using free tools. The goal is to ...


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Old 18th November 2009, 01:07 PM   #1
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FlowingData today has an article on how to make a choropleth map (a map with regions shaded by values of a measurement variable) using free tools. The goal is to recreate this map: The free tool FlowingData used is Python, and the whole process takes 14 steps and involves finding an SVG file with the county-level map and editing the SVG file with a text editor (automating part of that process with an XML tool in Python). At the end of the day the result is an SVG file -- high-resolution, yes, but not compatible with all browsers. Surely this...

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