by Ari Lamstein
Ari Lamstein is an independent consultant and organizer of the Census Working Group.
The US Census Bureau recently launched Census Academy, an online platform focused on training the public to learn about Census data. R Enthusiasts will be excited to learn that Census Academy has launched with two R-specific courses:
- Census Data in R by Jerzy Wieczorek
- Mapping Census Bureau Data in R with Choroplethr by Ari Lamstein
If you have an interest in using R to analyze US Census Data, then, in addition to the above courses, you might also want to read A Guide to Working with Census Data in R. The Guide summarizes the most popular datasets that the Census Bureau publishes, as well as the most popular R packages for working with Census Data.
A Guide to Working with Census Data in R was created as part of the R Consortium’s Census Working Group, which you can learn more about here.