The beauty of sketchy-looking maps

Or how to satisfy a Geography nerd

Rafael Belokurows

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You know that you’re a geography nerd when one of your ideas of “fun” is experimenting with different forms of drawing maps. Maps can be official, methodic, and a bit frightening sometimes, but there’s just something really interesting and appealing, and dare I say, artistic about the art of drawing a good map.

On the more fun and less official side of things, I recently discovered a little gem of a package for R named roughsf that allows you to draw maps like this one:

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Rafael Belokurows

Data Nerd, Compulsive Reader, Coffee-drinker, interested in pretty much all things IT