Omaha Steaks is a food retailing company that specializes in mail order delivery of beef. The company
Question:
Omaha Steaks is a food retailing company that specializes in mail order delivery of beef. The company is headquartered in Omaha Nebraska and was founded as a butcher shop in 1917. Omaha Steaks wants to create a visualization displaying the state’s geographic distribution of beef cattle. Data on the number of beef cattle in each county in Nebraska and the size of each county (in square miles) are contained in the file nebraskabeef.
a. Create a choropleth map that shades each county in Nebraska relative to the density of beef cattle (as measured by head per square mile).
b. Why might it be preferable to shade each county based on density of beef cattle (as measured by head per square mile) rather than just number of beef cattle?
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