Exploring the South African School Directory with R
summary
Takes the Department of Basic Education’s provincial Excel master lists (about 24,000 schools), cleans and geocodes them with R using tmap’s geocode_OSM/Nominatim, fills roughly 600 missing GPS with suburb/town bounding-box lookups and leaves about 200 still unmapped, then builds an interactive Shiny map with leaflet and leaflet proxy to avoid full redraws. Popups show learners, educators, quintile and rural/urban; downloadable cleaned province slices and improved coordinates are available.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 2:26Data exploration - size of schools
- 2:53Data exploration - quintiles
- 3:55Data exploration-quintiles
- 4:24Data exploration - rural or urban
- 5:42Putting schools on the map
- 7:42Creating an interactive map
- 9:37Starting simple
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