Playing around with geo mapping: combining demographic data with spatial data

In this post, we will play around with some basic geo mapping. More preciseyl, we will explore some easy ways to plot a choropleth map. First, let’s load some geo data from Bundeswahlleiter, and combine it with some socio demographic data from the same source. Preparation Let’s load some packages: library(tidyverse) ## Warning: package 'dplyr' was built under R version 3.5.1 library(sf) library(viridis) suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(googleVis)) Geo data: my_path_wahlkreise <- "~/Documents/datasets/geo_maps/btw17_geometrie_wahlkreise_shp/Geometrie_Wahlkreise_19DBT.shp&quot …