Where Americans Talk About Climate Change
Goal
Reproduce this map featured in the New York Times using the original source data:
New York Times Article - Last Map in Article
Contents
Data Sources
Methodology
Outcome & Products
Data Sources
Yale Climate Change Opinion Maps Data
Methodology
see R/join_yale_data_to_census_geometries.R for string and integer processing to join the Yale survey spreadsheet to the census 2015 geometries.
Outcome & Products
File Geodatabase of Census County geometries joined to Yale survery data
Tables included:
- yale_climate_census_needed_columns - contains just the data needed for the map of the month
- yale_climate_census_all_columns - contains all the columns in the source data from the yale survey. note that all of the vowels have been stripped from column names. please use the metadata link in the source above to look up these columns if needed.