Open Source Programming Courses
Visualize US Census Data in R with tidycensus and mapgl
Analysts interested in using R for data acquisition, analysis, and interactive visualization.
Students must have R, Mapbox GL JS (through R), and MapLibre GL JS (through R).
- Mapping Census data in R
- Census visualization workflows
This 2.5 hour workshop will teach you all about how to acquire demographic data from the US Census Bureau and make stunning cartographic visualizations of your Census data with the brand-new mapgl R package.
In the first part of the workshop, you’ll learn how to use the tidycensus R package for acquiring and analyzing US Census data on topics like income, race / ethnicity, home values, and much more. We’ll then walk through how to create a wide range of interactive maps of US Census data such as choropleth, graduated symbol, and dot-density maps using the powerful Mapbox and MapLibre libraries available in the mapgl package.
In the second part, we’ll cover how to solve common problems that arise when visualizing US Census data. This will include visualizing change over time in three dimensions; how to shift and rescale Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico on an interactive map; and best practices for performant large-scale demographic mapping, such as Census tracts across the United States!
The last part of the workshop was a live question-and-answer session where participants asked a range of mapping questions and got a live demo of some new features in mapgl.
What you’ll get:
- Unlimited access to the workshop recording and chat log for future use.
- A step-by-step annotated tutorial in Quarto format to help you build your knowledge.
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