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Difficult to Reproduce Choroplethr Bug: Can You Help?

February 20, 2018
/ Blog Open Source
/ By Ari Lamstein
/ 19 COMMENTS

Since November 2017 I have received three bug reports from users who see this error when running any command in the choroplethr package: Theme element panel.border missing Error in if (theme$panel.ontop) { : argument is of length zero Normally when someone reports a choroplethr bug that I cannot reproduce I recommend they do the following: Update to the latest version of R and RStudio. Type […]

Update on My Collaboration with the Census Bureau

February 14, 2018
/ Blog Open Data
/ By Ari Lamstein

In November I announced a new collaboration with the Census Bureau around data science training. Today I’d like to provide an update on this project. I recently presented a draft of my first course for this project internally and it was well received. The working title of this course is Mapping State ACS Data in […]

R Programmers: What is your biggest problem when working with Census data?

November 29, 2017
/ Blog Open Data Training
/ By Ari Lamstein
/ 5 COMMENTS

A few weeks ago I announced my latest project: Data Science instruction at the Census Bureau. In addition to announcing the project, I also snuck a bit of market research into the post. I asked people the types of analyses they do when working with Census data. I also asked what packages they use when […]

New Project: Data Science Instruction at the US Census Bureau!

November 13, 2017
/ Blog Open Data Training
/ By Ari Lamstein
/ 26 COMMENTS

Today I am delighted to announce an exciting new collaboration. I will be working with the US Census Bureau as a Data Science Instructor! Over the next six months I will be helping Census develop courses on using R to work with Census Data. These courses will be free and open to the public. People […]

Free Software Foundation “Social Benefit” Award Nominations

October 31, 2017
/ Blog Open Data Open Source
/ By Ari Lamstein

Ezra Haber Glenn, the author of the acs package in R, recently posted about the Free Software Foundation’s “Social Benefit” Award on the acs mailing list: acs.R Community: The Free Software Foundation is now accepting nominations for the 2017 “Project of Social Benefit Award,” presented to the project or team responsible for applying free software, […]