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Age pyramids

The age pyramid is a useful tool in demographic analysis. It visualizes the relative proportion of population by sex and age cohort. The shape of the curve can indicate an excess of deaths over births and give an idea of the sufficiency of the working age population to support the

Do It Yourself Bullseye Maps

Do It Yourself Bullseye Maps Bullseye maps are useful for orientation at the regional level. These are easy to assemble through the facilities of the Open Maps Project using the Leaflet API. Most of what this function does is to output HTML code with Javascript, which does the work. The

Up and running on the command line interface

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A 6-minute explainer for Julia Mapping: A Practical Guide

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