leafdown-interactive-multi-layer-maps.md

talk_id	talk_slug	talk_type	talk_tags	session_slug	talk_title	talk_title_short	talk_materials_url	speakers
22128	leafdown-interactive-multi-layer-maps	lightning	shiny spatial	lightning-talks	leafdown: Interactive multi-layer maps in Shiny apps	leafdown		name affiliation url username photo bio Andreas Hofheinz webpage twitter github linkedin affiliation https://github.com/andreash0 https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreas-hofheinz-3b686913b/ andreas_hofheinz /assets/img/2022Conf/_talks/22128_andreas-hofheinz.jpg Andreas is a consultant at d-fine and maintainer of the leafdown R package. He is passionate about interactive data visualizations and interpretable machine learning. He holds a B.Sc. in Economics and an M.Sc. in Statistics from LMU Munich.

Interactive maps are indispensable tools for exploring spatial datasets because of their real-world context and intuitiveness. For a comprehensive understanding of the data, it is often necessary to switch between several map layers (such as states and counties) and to analyze multiple variables simultaneously - both of which are challenging. In this talk, I will show how we can overcome these challenges using the leafdown package, which allows us to create multi-layer maps embedded in Shiny apps.