Exploring ICPSR data using GIS:
A Guide to Mapping ICPSR Data in R Studio

This brief guide to mapping ICPSR data in R Studio was prepared as part of Aditya Ranganath’s ICPSR Visiting Representative Fellowship in the summer and fall of 2021. It can be used as a lesson plan for instructors, as well as a tool for self-study.

About the Project

Many ICPSR datasets could be explored in the context of a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis. This resource includes a tutorial and practice exercises that will introduce data users (including students) to GIS analysis. It can be used as a lesson plan for instructors, as well as a tool for self-study.

This resource is a result of the ICPSR Visiting Representative Fellows program.

About the Author

Dr. Aditya Ranganath is a Data Librarian at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Before coming to Boulder, he held postdoctoral fellowships at Yale-NUS College in Singapore (where he taught courses in international relations and political economy), and New York University Libraries (where he specialized in geospatial data curation as a CLIR Fellow). He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego in 2018.

If you are interested in the OR sabbatical program or you are interested in becoming a member institution of ICPSR, please visit ICPSR's Membership in ICPSR.

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