Note: This document is currently incomplete. An update will be posted later this week. Currently, use this as a framework together with instructions provided during the zoom session.
Create a github repository called covid_prisons
Create a local folder called covid_prisons inside ~/Github on your computer
Load prisons data into R using tidyverse functions
Follow instructions on zoom for preparing a report using following questions:
Print summary of the prisons tibble to the report
Draw a map of prison locations across the United States and print it on report
Remove data for all states except for your home state and print it on report
For your home state, adjust the size of the points scaled to the size of prison population
For your home state, plot the number of covid cases on the map and again scale point size according to data
Write a summary of your findings in the report.
Compile your report from .md to .html using pandoc document converter you installed earlier.
Push your changes upstream to your repository.
Publish your github repository as a html website.