This November (2019) my new book – Exploring and Visualizing US Census Data with R will be published. You can get a free copy of the digital version of this book simply by entering your email address. The book will be delivered to your email inbox no later than...
In a previous article you were introduced to using US Census data using the tidycensus R package. In that article you learned how easy it is to generate R datasets containing either decennial or American Community Survey (ACS) data and visualize that information as...
This will be the first of multiple posts that explores how you can use R to efficiently load and visualize U.S. Census data using a variety of packages including tidycensus and tidyverse. The US Census Bureau has made its datasets available to the public through a...
This is a guest post by Fred Lott and was originally published on the GIS & You blog hosted by King County GIS. There is a wide array of powerful free open-source tools for doing data analysis, and many of them can now handle spatial data. This post will focus on...
Head over to our sister site – Location3x – and check out a sample application that we built with Shiny and R. The Zillow Market Overview: Rentals application is a dynamic web application that illustrates the visualization capabilities provided by the...
The 2017 wildfire season shattered records and cost the U.S. Forest Service an unprecedented $2 billion. From the Oregon wildfires to late season fires in Montana, and the highly unusual timing of the California fires in December, it was a busy year in the Western...