#30DayMapChallenge
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#30DayMappingChallenge Day 4: Hexagons
Day… 4? … of the #30dayMappingChallenge. Today’s theme was Hexagons. Given that it is Black Friday here in the U.S., I thought it might be interesting to try and display retail sales data. Initially, I wanted to try to get retail sales data at a fairly granular level, but I couldn’t find any non-proprietary data…
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#30DayMappingChallenge Day 3: Polygons
Happy Thanksgiving! Did you know that domestic turkey production is a $5B+ industry? For today’s map, I’ve used USDA data to identify the biggest turkey producing state in the country. I went somewhat off-script from the theme by adding in a dot-density layer behind the chloropleth layer to give some additional visual context to the…
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#30DayMappingChallenge Day 2: Lines
Day 2 is in the books. For today, I changed the base map a little from yesterdays exercise to de-emphasize the base street network, and then overlaid NCDOT traffic volume data. I had made a few attempts at using the QGIS layer rendering options to add a bit more visual interest with a subtle glow,…
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#30DayMappingChallenge: Day 1: Points
Well, Day 1 of the #30DayMappingChallenge is in the books; I could easily sit and tweak this for another hour, but we’ll just call this a work in progress and stick a pin in it.