Creating a Hex Map Fumiaki Nishihara Tokyo.R 71 (2018-07-15) (@f_nisihara) http://fnshr.info 

What do you like? shapes Photo by Scott Webb on https://unsplash.com/photos/INeZJfQxMLE 

Shapes R Users Don’t Like? 

Shapes R Users Like? Hexagons Source: https://github.com/tidyverse/tidyverse.org/blob/master/static/images/hex-tidyverse.png (Top) https://github.com/tidyverse/tidyverse.org/blob/master/static/images/hex-ggplot2.png (Bottom Left) https://github.com/tidyverse/tidyverse.org/blob/master/static/images/hex-tidyr.png (Bottom Right) 

The 2017 UK General Election Results Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:2017_UK_General_Election_map.svg&oldid=252618360 (Left) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:2017_UK_general_election_constituency_map.svg&oldid=252618253 (Right) Both show the same results: the party won the seat in each electoral district. 

The 2017 UK General Election Results Proportional Hexagonal Every district is represented in the same size. Small districts are small in the map. 

Blue districts (=Conservative seats) seem to be overwhelming because these districts are relatively large. 

Proportional London Hexagonal London London: Small but having many districts 

Hexagonal map of electoral districts for the House of the Representatives of Japan 

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php? title=File:JapanGrey_borders.png&oldid=164165226 (Left) Proportional Tokyo Hexagonal Tokyo 

Method 1) Specify coordinates of electoral districts 2) Make a new geom_ func 3) Visualize with ggplot2 After the presentation, I found that creating a hexagonal map as an sf object is a better solution. See https://gist.github.com/fnshr/bd752961f12dee4670d0c2ab1923e0c9 Code: https://gist.github.com/fnshr/90d204e39ee68d1278cca7a28ce380a0 

The 2017 Japan General Election Results