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June 29, 2009

Map of abortion rates in US

Nathan at FlowingData created this datamap of abortion rates in the US by state, 1970-2005:


Abortions

The map was created in R using the maps and maptools packages, exported as PDF, and then touched up with Adobe Illustrator (for annotations and typography). As we saw on Friday, the New York Times has a similar practice to make R graphics publication-ready. 

Posted by David Smith at 10:48 in graphics, packages, R |

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