Location of colleges and universities in Iowa

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

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)