Recently, I started a new position that requires me to use a Windows computer (I miss my MacBook Air dearly). This has led me to learn about the subtle differences when using R on different operating systems. If you are like me, you probably wor...

This is part of the CDCPLACES blog series. To view the other posts in this series click here. Introduction This brief blog post explains the new additions to CDCPLACES 1.1.8. This update provides a few new features: Updated 2024 release data, ...

An earlier version of this blog post was published on February 6, 2024 and described the new features in the development version of this package. This update shows all of the new features of the package as of March 16, 2024. Introduction CDCPLA...

This post was updated on March 19, 2024 to reflect updates introduced in CDCPLACES 1.1.5. Introduction To begin, we can install from CRAN, or from github, then load our packages. Code # Install from CRAN # install.packages("CDCPLACES) # Inst...

At first I was afraid, I was petrified… Introduction In this blog post, I’ll be exploring some basic survival analysis in R. Survival analysis focuses on describing the occurrence of an event (in this example death) in a set time frame. Surviva...

Introduction Over the summer, I took a course on public health surveillance. As a culminating project, we were tasked with creating original data visualizations for a fact sheet on a topic of our choosing. I chose to examine local opioid overdose and mortality data for my project. This is a ...