GIS and Data Visualisation using QGIS and R Studio
GIS and Data Visualisation using QGIS and R Studio
About the Book
Working through this book you will develop basic skills needed to use both QGIS and R Studio. Specifically, you will learn how to use the various data visualisation packages in R Studio, and how to use both QGIS and R Studio interchangeably for mapping purposes. Whilst learning to create interactive maps and graphs, you will also gain more knowledge about the basics of marine and climate science, and the impact of climate change on our Planet.
Here are some of the topics covered:
- Introduction to R Studio
- Basic data analysis
- Visualising data in R Studio (making both static and interactive plots)
- Introduction to Cartography and Mapping
- Introduction to GIS and QGIS
- Mapping with QGIS and R Studio (creating both static and interactive maps)
- Introduction to R Markdown
- Introduction to web mapping using Leaflet.js in R Studio
- Using GitHub
- Webscrapping using R Studio
- Creating and working with shapefile and geojson format
- Using OpenStreetMap data
- Geocoding and georeferencing
- Adding geotagged pictures to a map
- Introduction to ArcGIS Earth and Google Earth
ISBN number: 978-1-78808-204-4
About the Author
Table of Contents
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Introduction to R Studio
- What is R and R Studio?
- Installing R and R Studio
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Layout
- Packages
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Basic operations
- Expressions
- Built-in functions
- Objects
- Vectors
- Dataframes
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Basic data analysis
- Reading your file
- Inspecting your data
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Visualising data with R Studio
- Basic plot
- Using ggplot
- XKCD styled plot
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Interactive plots
- ggiraph
- ggplotly
- googleVis
- ggvis
- Animated or motion plot (GIF)
- Publishing your plots online
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Introduction to Cartography and Mapping
- Map categories
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Graticules, distortions and projections
- Graticules and distortions
- Projections
- Geoid, ellipsoid & datum
- Coordinate reference systems
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Introduction to GIS and QGIS
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Geographical Identification System
- Spatial and attribute data
- Vector and raster data
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Quantum GIS (QGIS)
- Installing QGIS
- Adding Plugins
- Working with shapefiles
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Geographical Identification System
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Mapping with R Studio and QGIS
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R Studio
- maps
- rworldmap
- ggmap
- googleVis
- 3D Globe
- QGIS
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R Studio
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Creating interactive maps with QGIS and R Studio
- QGIS
- R Studio
- Introduction to R Markdown
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Introduction to web mapping using Leaflet.js in R Studio
- HTML
- Leaflet.js
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Plugins
- Full-screen example
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Additional data visualisation & mapping tips
- Using GitHub
- Web scraping
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Working with shapefiles and geojson files
- Web-based creation tools
- R Studio
- Using QGIS
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Getting and using OpenStreetMap data
- OSM data from the website
- OSM data in QGIS
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Geocoding
- R Studio
- QGIS
- Georeferencing
- Mapping geotagged images in R Studio
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Introduction to Google Earth and ArcGIS Earth
- Google Earth
- ArcGIS Earth
- References
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