Why I’m interested in spatial interpolation in R 🗺

Lately I’ve been very interested in this topic. Spatial interpolation is the art and science of blending together points to make a smooth gradient between them. I can see many uses for this, from making colorful maps of elections or census data to making oredi with the data as rarely do demographics neatly follow census tract or voter tabulation lines.

And the nice thing about R scripts is they are easily repeatable and can run in the background without blocking other things like can happen with QGIS although that’s less of an issue now as it’s much more threaded these days.