Juneteenth 2021: Using ggplot2 and R to create a map showing the history of lynchings (CC117)

This episode generates a map with the R ggplot2 package showing the number lynchings in each county between 1877 and 1950 as a heatmap. Juneteenth is the anniversary of the 1865 emmancipation of slaves in Texas. To commemorate this important date, I'm presenting a series of episodes creating data visualizations using data from the CSDE Lynching Database.
I use RStudio and the #geom_polygon function from the #ggplot2 package as well as numerous dplyr functions including #anti_join and even #right_join. The accompanying blog post can be found at www.riffomonas.org/code_club/...
The CSDE Lynching database can be found at lynching.csde.washington.edu/#...
Do you have a figure that you would like to receive a critique or help improving? Let me know and I'd be happy to arrange a guest appearance!
If you're interested in taking an upcoming 3 day R workshop, email me at [e-mail]!
R: r-project.org
RStudio: rstudio.com
Raw data: github.com/riffomonas/raw_dat...
Workshops: www.mothur.org/wiki/workshops
You can also find complete tutorials for learning R with the tidyverse using...
Microbial ecology data: www.riffomonas.org/minimalR/
General data: www.riffomonas.org/generalR/
0:00 Introduction
2:26 Counting number of lynchings by state and county
5:37 Fixing county level names with anti_join
11:40 Creating a county level map with number of lynchings
16:04 Improving appearance of map
24:41 Critique of map

[@Riffomonas]

I *think* this was the first time I have used right_join for a real problem. Let me know what you think of the final map as well as the figures from the previous episode. Please, be constructive!

[@user-yq9kr9sy9i]

Hey there, Could you tell how to label the state names on the map using geom_text? I tried labelling but labels arent working out for me. Its overlapping. could you share a video on that please.

[@reneg646]

Great video! Being able to see the whole process of troubleshooting the unknown/ misidentified counties was very educational. Thanks for posting.

[@Riffomonas]

Hi Rene! Thanks!

[@mahatmaalimibrahim6631]

The troubleshooting and the mastery data wrangling process is phenomenal. Thank you.

[@Riffomonas]

My pleasure and thanks for your compliment! Glad you found the videos

[@ndipagbor7280]

Fascinating data manipulation skills. That's my best part of his videos. 😊

[@Riffomonas]

Thanks! I guess after enough mistakes you get pretty fluent with the tools 😂

[@ST-gx8ml]

Thanks for the videos! Also, it feels like Ryan Reynold is teaching :D

[@Riffomonas]

My pleasure!