All posts by Ari Lamstein
“Mapmaking in R with Choroplethr” is now out!
I am happy to announce that my new course, Mapmaking in R with Choroplethr, is now available. In honor of its launch I am offering a 15% discount to anyone who purchases before January 1. You will also be able to attend a Q&A webinar with me on January 5th. Creating this course has been […]
Continue readingChoroplethr, ggplot2 and R-Hub
Choroplethr v3.3.1 is now on CRAN. You can get it by typing the following from the R command line: Note that while the new version is now on CRAN, it sometimes takes a few days for all of the CRAN mirrors to update. If you are unable to get the latest version from CRAN, you can […]
Continue readingNew Course: Mapmaking in R with Choroplethr
Today I am happy to announce that my new online course, Mapmaking in R with Choroplethr, is now available for preorder. The course is designed to teach you everything you need to start your first mapping project in R using choroplethr. The course will teach you how to: Conduct exploratory analysis using maps in R Create 220 different maps, from US ZIP […]
Continue readingHow to Search for Census Data from R
In my course Learn to Map Census Data in R I provide people with a handful of interesting demographics to analyze. This is convenient for teaching, but people often want to search for other demographic statistics. To address that, today I will work through an example of starting with a simple demographic question and using R […]
Continue reading4 Tips to Learn More About ACS Data
One of the highlights of my recent east coast trip was meeting Ezra Haber Glenn, the author of the acs package in R. The acs package is my primary tool for accessing census data in R, and I was grateful to spend time with its author. My goal was to learn how to “take the next step” in […]
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