Animated choropleths to visualize mortality rates of children under 5 and gender differences using rMaps

This post displays two animated choropleths. One for global mortality rates for children under 5 (per 1000 live births) and the second for the difference in global mortality rates for males and female children under 5 (per 1000). Please click here: http://patilv.com/MortalityUnder5/

Using great circles and ggplot2 to map arrival/departure of 2014 US Open Tennis Players

Please click on the image for information on how to use R and ggplot2 to generate this plot.