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Interesting 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 […]
Continue readingHow to Change the Reference Map in Choroplethr
Last week I released an update to choroplethr that lets you combine choropleth maps with reference maps. Since that post many people have asked if it’s possible to change the reference map that choroplethr uses. The answer is yes, but it requires some code. Here is the same choropleth (New York City ZIP Code Income) with three […]
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