Nov 2018
Chennai, India
Slides for an introduction to mapping in R tutorial for a workshop on modeling infectious diseases and seroepidemiology for Indian Council of Medical Researchers. Includes a Rmarkdown document for the tutorial and the corresponding answer key.
The data included in this repository were simulated and was generated by the script gen_spatial_data.R.
The population and birth rasters are from WorldPop and were aggregated up to a coarser resolution to facilitate use in workshop (code for processing also in gen_spatial_data.R. The shapefiles are downloaded using the Malaria Atlas R package.
Slides can be viewed here.