Interested in more tips on working with Census data? Click here to join my email list! Last week, I published the development version of my new R package, tidycensus. You can read through the documentation and some examples at https://walkerke.github.io/tidycensus/. I’m working on getting the ... [Read more...]

Need help working with Census data in your project? Contact me at [email protected] to discuss consulting support or a training workshop! Commonly, studies that use US Census data focus on topics at the scale of the metropolitan area. However, subsetting Census geographic data by metropolitan area is not ... [Read more...]

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In November, the new simple features package for R sf hit CRAN. The package is like rgdal, sp, and rgeos rolled into one, is much faster, and allows for data processing with dplyr verbs! Also, as sf objects are represented in a much simpler way than sp objects, it allows ... [Read more...]

In November, the new simple features package for R sf hit CRAN. The package is like rgdal, sp, and rgeos rolled into one, is much faster, and allows for data processing with dplyr verbs! Also, as sf objects are represented in a much simpler way than sp objects, it allows ... [Read more...]

I strongly believe that interactive reports, presentations, and scholarly articles are going to become much more prominent in the years ahead. Whereas a PDF article or presentation can often only show a limited aspect of a research project, interactive documents can allow a reader or presenter to explore project content ... [Read more...]

I strongly believe that interactive reports, presentations, and scholarly articles are going to become much more prominent in the years ahead. Whereas a PDF article or presentation can often only show a limited aspect of a research project, interactive documents can allow a reader or presenter to explore project content ... [Read more...]

This week, Emily Badger and Darla Cameron at The Washington Post’s Wonkblog published an article (linked here) discussing data from the Federal Housing Finance Agency that suggest that the greatest increase in house prices in large metropolitan areas tend to be found in urban rather than suburban areas. Wonkblog ... [Read more...]

This week, Emily Badger and Darla Cameron at The Washington Post’s Wonkblog published an article (linked here) discussing data from the Federal Housing Finance Agency that suggest that the greatest increase in house prices in large metropolitan areas tend to be found in urban rather than suburban areas. Wonkblog ... [Read more...]

Exploring flows between origins and destinations visually is a common task, but can be difficult to get right. In R, there are many tutorials on the web that show how to produce static flow maps (see here, here, here, and here, among others). Over the past couple years, R developers ... [Read more...]

Exploring flows between origins and destinations visually is a common task, but can be difficult to get right. In R, there are many tutorials on the web that show how to produce static flow maps (see here, here, here, and here, among others). Over the past couple years, R developers ... [Read more...]

Today’s post is by Kyle Walker, a professor of geography at Texas Christian University. I’ve been a fan of Kyle’s work for a while. When I saw that he wrote a package for accessing the Census Bureau’s International Data Base, I asked him to write a ... [Read more...]

Mapbox recently announced that map styles designed in the new Mapbox Studio are now available as basemaps in other platforms, such as Tableau, CartoDB, and ArcGIS Online: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/use-studio-styles-in-gis-tools/. Previously, this wasn’t possible due to these tools’ incompatibility with the GL-based vector tiles produced by ... [Read more...]

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It’s been a while since I last posted here - but I’ve been working on a new R package that I’m quite excited about, and I thought this would be the right place to post. My new package, idbr, is an R interface to the United States ... [Read more...]

It’s been a while since I last posted here - but I’ve been working on a new R package that I’m quite excited about, and I thought this would be the right place to post. My new package, idbr, is an R interface to the United States ... [Read more...]

I use data from the US Census Bureau’s American Community Survey all of the time. I also use R all of the time. Naturally, this means that I often use ACS data in R - which is pertinent given last week’s release of the new 2010-2014 ACS estimates. ... [Read more...]

I use data from the US Census Bureau’s American Community Survey all of the time. I also use R all of the time. Naturally, this means that I often use ACS data in R - which is pertinent given last week’s release of the new 2010-2014 ACS estimates. ... [Read more...]

There are three functions available in the tigris package (https://github.com/walkerke/tigris) to fetch road data. primary_roads() loads all interstates for the entire US; primary_secondary_roads() gets you interstates and US/state/county highways, by state; and roads() gets you all road segments for a given ... [Read more...]

There are three functions available in the tigris package (https://github.com/walkerke/tigris) to fetch road data. primary_roads() loads all interstates for the entire US; primary_secondary_roads() gets you interstates and US/state/county highways, by state; and roads() gets you all road segments for a given ... [Read more...]