colleges: Location of colleges and universities in Iowa

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Location of colleges and universities in Iowa

Description

Dataset was scraped by Masoud Nosrati from wikipedia in Mar 2020, geocoding by Heike Hofmann through Google API.

Usage

colleges

Format

A data frame with 57 rows and 11 variables:

name

name of school

city

name of the clinic

type

type of institution by degree

enrolment

number of students enrolled (in Spring 2012)

address

address used in search string for Google geocoding

latitude

geographic latitude

longitude

geographic longitude

classification

column used for classifying the data set

Source

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_Iowa

Examples

# Map of rural health clinics in Iowa using ggplot2
library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr) # for the pipe

colleges %>%
  ggplot() +
    geom_point(aes(x = longitude, y = latitude))

# leaflet map
library(leaflet)
library(sf)

colleges %>%
  leaflet() %>%
    addTiles() %>%
    addPolygons(data = ia_counties,
                weight = 1, color="#333333") %>%
    addCircleMarkers(lng = ~longitude, lat = ~latitude,
                     radius = 1, stroke = 0.1,
                     label = ~name)

DSPG-ISU/DSPG documentation built on Feb. 19, 2024, 9:36 p.m.