[Methods-l] R user group in KC, March 11 meeting

[Paul Johnson]

Ben Rogers, a graduate student in political science, will make a 
presentation at the Kansas City R User Group (RUG) on March 11. The 
meetings are good opportunities for networking and finding out about 
jobs in industry. Several of the former CRMDA GRAs who work in KC 
businesses regularly attend these meetings.

Here's the announcement:

The Kansas City R User Group is having its first advanced topics meeting 
of the year. It will be this Saturday, March 11 at 1:30 pm, at the Oak 
Park Library, 9500 Bluejacket St, Overland park, KS.

For details:

https://www.meetup.com/Kansas-City-R-Users-Group/events/237893570/

Other topics are currently being assembled

Talk Title: Using R For Mapping with Shapefiles: Turning a Shapefile
into a Presentable Figure.
Abstract: The ability to display geographic data can be useful in 
cross-sectional work, and I’ll be showing how to take a shapefile, a 
commonly used method of storing geographic information, from the U.S. 
Census and turn it into a presentable map using the ggplot2 and the 
maptools packages. Using ggplot2, I’ll demonstrate how to transform the 
shapefile into an easily plottable dataframe, as well as how to merge
data to control the colors that are displayed in each region of the map.
I’ll conclude with a discussion of ways to make the map more presentable.