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Final Project Task 2

For this project task, you will be required to “spatialize” your tabular census data and save the data to your “Data” subfolder in your final project folder. You will do this by joining your tabular data to your geographic data (from tigris)

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Make Spatial

Open up Lastname_GEOG215_Project_DataPreparation.Rmd (created during Project Task #1). Add a new third-level heading called “Spatialize” below the work you completed for Project Task #1. Insert an R code chunk where you make the non-spatial data into spatial data by executing a join. Remember, to execute a join, there must be a matching column between both the spatial dataset and the table. This column will be the “key” column. Once the data has been made “spatial,” you must map it using tmap (make sure that tmap is in interactive mode). You must create a choropleth using one of the variables that was initially “nonspatial.”

Interpret

Additionally, you must provide a 4-6 sentence explanation (using narrative text in Lastname_GEOG215_Project_DataPreparation.Rmd ) that describes/explains the process of making your data spatial describes the spatial pattern you see in your map.

Save

Save your joined data as a shapefile to your “Data” subfolder. (hint, use the st_write() command)

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Deliverables

Lastname_GEOG215_Project_DataPreparation.Rmd Lastname_GEOG215_Project_DataPreparation.html