I’m house-hunting, and while I’d love to buy a 5-bedroom house with a pool 10 minutes walk from Flinders Street Station I probably can’t afford that. So I need to take a broader look at Melbourne. One of the main constraints is commute time. I built a choropleth of commute times to the University of Melbourne and put it on top of a map of Melbourne. The rough idea is to create a fine hexagonal grid across the city using the sf package, and then to pass the centre of each hexagon through...
