Mamdani vs Sliwa and Cuomo

Mamdani&rsquo;s victory in the New York City mayoral election gave me the opportunity to draw a few maps, and also to learn a bit about incorporating additional spatial data into maps drawn in R. R is not a specialized piece of GIS software. ESRI&rsquo;s ArcGIS is the 800lb gorilla in this world and QGIS the GIMP to its Photoshop, so to speak. Still, you can do a lot of spatial stuff in R,…