Choroplethr v4.0.0 is now on CRAN
choroplethr version 4.0.0 is now on CRAN. You can install it like this: With this version, I have transferred the maintenance of choroplethr to Zhaochen He, an economics professor at Christopher Newport University. Zhao addressed the issues that led to choroplethr being archived from CRAN in February. Please join me in thanking Zhao for his […]
censusdis v1.4.0 is now on PyPI
I recently contributed a new module to the censusdis package. This resulted in a new version of the package being pushed to PyPI. You can install it like this: The module I created is called multiyear. It is very similar to the utils module I created for my hometown_analysis project. This notebook demonstrates how to […]
Using Python to Measure Immigration Trends
I recently finished a project that uses Python and the American Community Survey (ACS) to measure immigration in the town I grew up in. This post provides an overview of the results. If you are interested in doing a similar analysis, I recommend using the code I used for this project as a starting point. […]
New Parameter to `download_multiyear`
In a previous post I demonstrated how to use three Python functions I wrote to work with multi-year data from the American Community Survey (ACS): download_multiyear, graph_multiyear and pct_change_multiyear. A limitation of download_multiyear was that it could only download entire tables, not individual variables. I recently encountered a situation where this was problematic. As a […]
Is CRAN Holding R Back?
Today the R package acs was “archived” from CRAN. This led to the choroplethr package (which I maintain) also being “archived”. I write “archived” in quotes because CRAN stands for “Comprehensive R Archive Network”: everything on it is part of an archive and it appears that nothing is ever deleted. You can still install both […]