In this post I’m going to explore the tigris and leaflet packages to make some maps. I live in Cook County, Illinois, and I thought it would be interesting to create a relatively granular map of the county.
While looking through the census data website I found an interesting measure that the Census Bureau has been tracking since 1790. Based on the results of each 10 year census, they track the county that is the population ‘center’ of the United States.