tidycensus, the R package you didn’t know you needed This is a post for R nerds or people who don’t know why they should become R nerds but are willing to be convinced. In my job I have worked with a lot of Census and American Community Survey data. I built a PowerBI dashboard toContinue reading “Working with Census data has never been easier”
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Finding a Good Data Set to Play With
The best way to really learn data analytics is to apply what you’ve learned in classes and videos to process and analyze real, messy, complicated data. You may be lucky and have the resources and time to do this all at work. If not, you’ll likely be doing side projects in your spare time toContinue reading “Finding a Good Data Set to Play With”
Transportation Data Tools #2: Public Use Microdata Samples
For most things, the Census and American Community Survey (ACS) only offer data at the aggregate level: by census block group or city, for example. You can view how many people in a city live under the poverty level or what percentage of people in a tract own their homes, but you have to useContinue reading “Transportation Data Tools #2: Public Use Microdata Samples”
Nerd on the Bus 