Results of the 2004 US presidential election at the county level (sf)

Results of the 2004 US presidential election at the county level, together with five socio-economic (census) variables. This data can be used with GW Discriminant Analysis.

Usage

data(USelect2004)

Format

A sf with 3111 electoral divisions on the following 6 variables.

winner: Categorical variable with three classes: i) Bush, ii) Kerry and iii) Borderline (supporting ratio for a candidate ranges from 0.45 to 0.55)
unemploy: percentage unemployed
pctcoled: percentage of adults over 25 with 4 or more years of college education
PEROVER65: percentage of persons over the age of 65
pcturban: percentage urban
WHITE: percentage white

References

Robinson, A. C. (2013). Geovisualization of the 2004 Presidential Election. In: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, P. S. U. (ed.). Penn State: http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/a/c/acr181/election.html.

Foley, P. & Demsar, U. (2012). Using geovisual analytics to compare the performance of geographically weighted discriminant analysis versus its global counterpart, linear discriminant analysis. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 27, 633-661.

Examples

library(sf)
data(USelect2004)
plot(USelect2004["winner"])