I recently created a few datasets to facilitate analyzing the interaction between demographics and political party affiliations of US Congressional Districts. My goal was to create this graph: I added this data to Choroplethr and pushed the new version to CRAN. This post walks you through using these datasets, the ...

Choroplethr v3.6.4 is now on CRAN. This is the first update to the package in two years, and was necessary because of a recent change to the tigris package, which choroplethr uses to make Census Tract maps. I also took this opportunity to add new example demographic data for Census ...

Next Tuesday (September 3) I will be giving a talk at the Bay Area R User Group titled Behind the Scenes of an R Consortium Project. This will be my first time speaking about my work with the R Consortium, and I encourage you to attend! Over the last few years ...

I recently became an RStudio Certified Trainer, and thought that it might interest the broader R Community to learn about this new program. For those who don’t know, RStudio has recently put together a process to independently verify that R trainers (a) are proficient with the Tidyverse and (b) ...

Last week the Census Bureau published a free course I created on using Choroplethr to map US Census Data. Unfortunately, a few people have reported problems when following one of the examples in the course. This post describes that issues and provides instructions for working around it. Where does the ...

Today I am happy to announce that a new free course on Choroplethr – Mapping Census Bureau Data in R with Choroplethr – is available on Census Academy, the US Census Bureau’s new training platform! (Choroplethr is a suite of R packages I created for mapping demographic statistics).This course is ...

Two weeks ago I mentioned that I was clearing my calendar until I finished writing A Guide to Working with Census Data in R. Today I’m... The post “A Guide to Working With Census Data in R” is now Complete! appeared first on AriLamstein.com.

It’s been a while since I shared any information about the R Consortium’s Census Working Group. Today I’d like to share an update on three... The post Update on the R Consortium Census Working Group appeared first on AriLamstein.com.

As I mentioned in July, my proposal to the R Consortium to create a Guide to Working with Census Data in R was accepted. Today I’d like... The post Update on R Consortium Census Guide appeared first on AriLamstein.com.

I recently attended the 2018 Association of Public Data Users (APDU) conference. This was my second time attending the conference, and I enjoyed learning more... The post Notes from the 2018 APDU Conference appeared first on AriLamstein.com.

Today I am happy to announce that my proposal to the R Consortium was accepted! I first announced that I was submitting a proposal back... The post R Consortium Proposal Accepted! appeared first on AriLamstein.com.

Last year I announced a collaboration with the Census Bureau to help with their new online training platform. This website, called “Census Academy”, is designed to... The post Census Academy Update! appeared first on AriLamstein.com.

Last year I decided to take out the domain Choroplethr.com. I used it to host information about Choroplethr, my suite of R packages for mapping... The post New Version of Choroplethr.com! appeared first on AriLamstein.com.

A new version of Choroplethr is now on CRAN! You can get it by typing the following from the R Console: [crayon-5b341e0528211012241032/] I encourage all... The post Choroplethr v3.6.2 is now on CRAN appeared first on AriLamstein.com.

I just received a note from Hadley Wickham that a new version of ggplot2 is scheduled to be submitted to CRAN on June 25. Here’s... The post New Version of ggplot2 appeared first on AriLamstein.com.