Analyzing US Census Data in R
Learn to rapidly visualize and explore demographic data from the United States Census Bureau using tidyverse tools.
- 4 hours
- 17 Videos
- 59 Exercises
- 2,416 Participants
- 5,050 XP
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Course Description
Analysts across industries rely on data from the United States Census Bureau in their work. In this course, students will learn how to work with Census tabular and spatial data in the R environment. The course focuses on the tidycensus package for acquiring data from the decennial US Census and American Community survey in a tidyverse-friendly format, and the tigris package for accessing Census geographic data within R. By the end of this course, students will be able to rapidly visualize and explore demographic data from the Census Bureau using ggplot2 and other tidyverse tools, and make maps of Census demographic data with only a few lines of R code.
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Census data in R with tidycensus
FreeIn this chapter, students will learn the basics of working with Census data in R with tidycensus. They will acquire data using tidycensus functions, search for data, and make a basic plot.
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US Census geographic data in R
In this chapter, students will learn how to work with US Census Bureau geographic data in R using the tigris R package.
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Wrangling US Census Data
In this chapter, students learn how to use tidyverse tools to wrangle data from the US Census and American Community Survey. They also learn about handling margins of error in the ACS.
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Mapping US Census Data
In this chapter, you will learn how to obtain feature geometry with the tidycensus package, and use ggplot2 and mapview to make customized static and interactive maps of US Census data.
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1
Census data in R with tidycensus
FreeIn this chapter, students will learn the basics of working with Census data in R with tidycensus. They will acquire data using tidycensus functions, search for data, and make a basic plot.
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Wrangling US Census Data
In this chapter, students learn how to use tidyverse tools to wrangle data from the US Census and American Community Survey. They also learn about handling margins of error in the ACS.
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US Census geographic data in R
In this chapter, students will learn how to work with US Census Bureau geographic data in R using the tigris R package.
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Mapping US Census Data
In this chapter, you will learn how to obtain feature geometry with the tidycensus package, and use ggplot2 and mapview to make customized static and interactive maps of US Census data.
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Kyle Walker
Geography professor at TCU and spatial data science consultant
I work as a geography professor at TCU and as a spatial data science consultant. My research focuses on demographic change and migration in US cities and suburbs; demographic data visualization; and tools for open data science. I'm also the author of the tidycensus, tigris, and idbr R packages for working with US Census Bureau data.
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