3 easy ways to map population density from gridded raster in R

In this video, I will show you how to use the WorldPop 1km population grid adjusted by UN figures to create three types of maps: choropleth, spike, and contour.

0:00 Prologue
01:11 Intro
01:35 Load libraries
03:37 WorldPop website
06:45 Load data
08:17 Raster to dataframe
09:39 ggplot2 theme
13:27 Colors
14:20 Method 1: Choropleth map
18:08 Method 2: Spike map
26:22 Background layer
30:24 Method 3: Contour map
34:40 Closing

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