If you are familiar with this famous Joy Division cover, you might remember that last year we shared a link that shows you how to reproduce the cover using R ggplot2. If you are a big fan of Joy Division and R, you should know that there is an R package just for that (by @mikefc).
About three years ago in 2014, James Cheshire created the Population Lines Print, a stylized map using lines to show population density in the world. It uses roughly the same data visualization style used in the Joy Division cover.
credit: James Cheshire
How can you create a nice-looking map like this? Ask no more. James has recently shared the R script and a bit of the history behind his map. Henrik Lindberg has also generously written a gist with a simple and reproducible code to create a map with the same style showing the distribution of the population density in Europe, using R and ggplot2.
and you get this:
credit: Henrik Lindberg
I made @galka_max Europe map interactive with 2 more lines of #rstats code https://t.co/KZp0w5YoFH pic.twitter.com/a4GaFJRJVn— Carson Sievert (@cpsievert) 26 April 2017
