Fast zip code map

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I’ve recently been playing around with the ggmap package in R and was able to quickly put together a bubble chart version of student home zip codes.  As you can see from the two legends, the size and color both reflect the number of students in these zip codes.

I will certainly be playing around with ggmaps so more as this map required only two lines of code (after the ggmap library was loaded).

R CODE:

usmap<-qmap(‘united states’, zoom=4, source=’osm’,extent=’panel’)

usmap+geom_point(aes(x=X, y=Y, size=COUNT, color=COUNT), data=DATA, alpha=.5)

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