A free shiny application to interactively visualize detailed census data with different base maps and spatial disaggregations.
It currently visualizes the Uganda 2014 Population and Housing Census.
Running Application: https://sebkrantz.shinyapps.io/Census-Mapper/
To adapt to a different census dataset, use a census and supporting shapefile, create an sf data frame and aggregate to different spatial resolutions with aggregate.sf(). Use rmapshaper::ms_simplify to simplify the shapefile for improved leaflet performance at high spatial resolutions.
Note: You need an API key if you want to use the Jawg base maps.