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 […]
Choroplethr is Scheduled to be Archived from CRAN
I was just notified by CRAN that choroplethr is scheduled to be archived on February 12. The reason is that choroplethr depends on the acs package, and the acs package is being archived. Apparently when a package is archived from CRAN, all packages which use it are also archived. I am not exactly sure what […]
New Python Functions for Working with Multi-Year ACS Data
As part of my hometown_analysis project I’ve written some new functions for working with multi-year data from the American Community Survey (ACS). The functions are download_multiyear, graph_multiyear and pct_change_multiyear. This code is open source and released under the MIT License. It currently lives in utils.py in the hometown_analysis repo. While I don’t think the functions warrant […]