Lesson 3: Thematic and Analytical Mapping

This lesson aims to share with you the basic principles and methods of Thematic Mapping and Cartography Design. You will also gain hands on experience on using tmap, an R package specially design for plotting cartographic quality maps.

Content

• Classification of maps
• Principles of map design
• Thematic mapping techniques
• Analytical mapping techniques
  • Percentile map
  • Box map
  • Standard deviation map
  • Mapping rates

Lesson Slides

• Lesson 3 slides in html and pdf formats.

Hands-on Exercise

• Choropleth Mapping with R: tmap Methods

In-class Exercise

• Analytical Mapping

Principles and Methods of Thematic Mapping

• Proportional Symbols
• Choropleth Maps
• The Basics of Data Classification
• Choropleth Mapping with Exploratory Data Analysis
• Tennekes, M. (2018) “tmap: Thematic Maps in R”, Journal of Statistical Software, Vol 84:6, 1-39.

Additional Reading

• The Concept of Map Symbols
• Choropleth map
• Choropleth Maps – A Guide to Data Classification
• Bivariate Choropleth
• Value-by-alpha maps
• What to consider when creating choropleth maps

All About R:

• tmap package especially:
• tmap: get started!,
• tmap: version changes, and
• Chapter 8 Making maps with R of Geocomputation with R.