All posts by Ari Lamstein
Free Webinar: Learn to Map Unemployment Data in R
Last month I ran my first webinar (“Make a Census Explorer with Shiny”). About 100 people showed up, and feedback from the participants was great. I also had a lot of fun myself. Because of this, I’ve decided to do one more webinar before my free trial with the webinar service ends. Here are the […]
Continue readingInteresting Datasets I Recently Learned About
Last week I spoke about my census-mapping work at two great venues: the EARL Conference in Boston and the NY Open Statistical Programming Meetup in New York. After my talks many people shared their own experiences mapping public datasets. I thought that I would pass along that information in case anyone is interested in exploring these datasets. Epidemiology Datasets […]
Continue readingSlides For My Upcoming Talks: “Mapping Census Data in R”
Next week I will be giving a talk titled “Mapping Census Data in R” in two places: On Tuesday (11/3/15) at EARL 2015 in Boston. On Thursday (11/5/15) at the New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup. The slides for both talks are the same, and you can see them below: If you are attending either event then […]
Continue readingFree Webinar: Make a Census Explorer with Shiny
Next Friday at noon PDT I will be hosting a free webinar titled Make a Census Explorer with Shiny. You can register for it here. Space is limited, so if you are interested then I recommend that you reserve your space today. The content will be very similar to the workshop that I ran at the San […]
Continue readingInteractive Scatterplots of Census Data Using ggvis
Today I finished two projects that had been on my mind for a while: Try out ggvis, the interactive successor to ggplot2 Create interactive scatterplots of census data You can see the resulting shiny app here. The app lets you create a scatterplot of any pair of demographic variables that ship with the choroplethr package. When you roll over […]
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