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[CTPP] Life After AFF - Tidycensus Example Set #3

by Charles Purvis

Here’s my writeup on creating on what I call a “stacked” output from tidycensus: one record per each unique geography / year combination. This approach may be preferred if you’re trying to create a “data profile” for a specific geographic area, with rows representing the years, and columns representing the various variables of interest (total population, household population, workers by means of transportation to work, etc.) I’m almost done! Hope this helps! Chuck Purvis, Hayward, California Example #3. More Complex Tidycensus examples: multiple years, multiple geographies, multiple variables. “Stacked” results. This is an example of stacking “R” data frames, where each record (row) represents a unique geography/year combination. Step #0. Always need to load the relevant packages/libraries when starting up a new R-session. I’m loading the “R” package “plyr” which helps in stacking / concatenating / pancaking data frames. # Step 0: Load relevant libraries into each R-session. library(tidyverse) library(tidycensus) library(janitor) library(plyr) # This is needed for a function to concatenate a lot of files in one statement! In this set of examples, I’m extracting single year ACS variables (2005-2018) for all large (65,000+ population) places in the State of California. Very similar to Example #2, but with one record (row) per each geography/year combination. # Example 3.1 through 3.14: Run get_acs for large California Places, 2005-2018 # Example 3.15: Concatenate (pancake) data frames: lots of records # Example 3.16: Merge in a file of Large San Francisco Bay Area places, and subset file. # Example 3.17: Extract data for one place using a string search on the place name #------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Set a list of variables to extract in each iteration of get_acs # This is a LOT more efficient for variable naming!!! selvars <- c(TotalPop_ = "B06001_001", # Total Population Med_HHInc_ = "B19013_001", # Median Household Income Agg_HHInc_ = "B19025_001", # Aggregate Household Income HHldPop_ = "B11002_001", # Population in Households Househlds_ = "B25003_001", # Total Households Owner_OccDU_= "B25003_002", # Owner-Occupied Dwelling Units Rent_OccDU_ = "B25003_003", # Renter-Occupied Dwelling Units Med_HHVal_ = "B25077_001") #------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ temp2005 <- get_acs(survey="acs1", year=2005, geography = "place", state = "CA", show_call = TRUE,output="wide", variables = selvars) temp2005$Year <- "2005" #------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ temp2006 <- get_acs(survey="acs1", year=2006, geography = "place", state = "CA", show_call = TRUE,output="wide", variables = selvars) temp2006$Year <- "2006" #------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ temp2007 <- get_acs(survey="acs1", year=2007, geography = "place", state = "CA", show_call = TRUE,output="wide", variables = selvars) temp2007$Year <- "2007" #------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ These sets of codes are repeated for each ACS single-year of interest. Note that I’m adding a new variable “Year” to each data frame. Otherwise, I have no indication of the year of each data frame, other than the actual name of the file! In the following “R” step, I’m using the “dplyr” function “rbind.fill” to concatenate a lot of data frames! # Example 3.15: Concatenate (pancake) data frames: lots of records # Concatenate All Years ..... # rbind can only concatenate two dataframes at a time. rbind.fill can do 2-or-more data # frames to concatenate. It's a plyr function. # temp0506 <- rbind(temp2005,temp2006) # temp0507 <- rbind(temp0506,temp2007) tempall <- rbind.fill(temp2005,temp2006,temp2007,temp2008,temp2009, temp2010,temp2011,temp2012,temp2013,temp2014, temp2015,temp2016,temp2017,temp2018) # Add a couple of useful variables! # need to have a if/then to catch zero values.. work on this later. # tempall$Avg_HHSize <- tempall$HHldPop_E / tempall$Househlds_E # tempall$MeanHHInc <- tempall$Agg_HHInc_E / tempall$Househlds_E # Sort the Results by GEOID and then by Year tempalls <- tempall[order(tempall$GEOID,tempall$Year),] setwd("~/Desktop/tidycensus_work/output") # Export the data frames to CSV files, for importing to Excel, and applying finishing touches write.csv(tempalls,"ACS_AllYears_Calif_Places_Stacked.csv") In the following step I’m extracting data for large places in the San Francisco Bay Area. # Example 3.16: Merge in a file of Large San Francisco Bay Area places, and subset file. # Read in a file with the Large SF Bay Area Places, > 65,000 population # and merge with the All Large California Places bayplace <- read.csv("BayArea_Places_65K.csv") Bayplace1 <- merge(bayplace,tempalls, by = c('NAME')) Bayplace1 <- Bayplace1[order(Bayplace1$GEOID.x,Bayplace1$Year),] write.csv(Bayplace1,"ACS_AllYears_BaseVar_BayArea_Places_Stacked.csv") dput(names(Bayplace1)) In the following step I’m extracting data for just “Hayward” city in the San Francisco Bay Area. This uses the “R” function “grepl”. (That’s grep-ell, not grep-one). # Example 3.17: Extract data for one place using a string search on the place name # Extract one place at a time from Bayplace1 # Hayward <- filter(Bayplace1, grepl("Hayward",NAME,fixed=TRUE)) Hayward <- Hayward[order(Hayward$Year),] Hayward$Avg_HHSize <- Hayward$HHldPop_E / Hayward$Househlds_E Hayward$MeanHHInc <- Hayward$Agg_HHInc_E / Hayward$Househlds_E selvarxxx <- c("Year","NAME", "GEOID.x", "NAME2", "TotalPop_E", "Med_HHInc_E", "Agg_HHInc_E", "HHldPop_E", "Househlds_E", "Owner_OccDU_E", "Rent_OccDU_E", "Med_HHVal_E", "Avg_HHSize", "MeanHHInc" ) Hayward2 <- Hayward[selvarxxx] write.csv(Hayward2,"ACS_AllYears_BaseVar_Hayward_Stacked.csv") ##################################################################################### This concludes Example #3: “multiple geographies / multiple years/ multiple variables” with only one record (row) per each geography/year combination, or the “stacked” output.

5 years, 1 month

[CTPP] ACS Updates on Disclosure Avoidance and Release Plans

by Ed Christopher

Apologies if you have already seen this. According to my read Table B98001 (Unweighted Housing Unit Sample) will be published for nation, state, county and place in both the 1-year and 5-year ACS beginning with the 2019 ACS release, and I assume moving forward. What struck me was that there was no reference to the B98001 information ever being available for tracks or below ever again. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Research Matters Blog: ACS Updates on Disclosure Avoidance and Release Plans Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 12:20:48 -0500 From: U.S. Census Bureau <census(a)subscriptions.census.gov> Reply-To: census(a)subscriptions.census.gov To: edc(a)berwyned.com Research Matters Blog: ACS Updates on Disclosure Avoidance and Release Plans Registered United States Census Bureau Logo <https://lnks.gd/l/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDAsInVy…> *ACS Updates on Disclosure Avoidance and Release Plans* *RESEARCH MATTERS BLOG* AUG. 20, 2020** Written By: Dr. John M. Abowd, chief scientist and associate director for Research and Methodology, and Donna M. Daily, chief, American Community Survey Office Despite changes and delays during this unprecedented time, we are happy to report that the U.S. Census Bureau is on track to release the 2019 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates as scheduled Sept. 17, 2020. Check out our website for the full data release schedule and other details <https://lnks.gd/l/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDEsInVy…>_._ As we prepare to release the 2019 ACS products, we want to remind data users of our commitment to protect respondent privacy and confidentiality. Prior blogs <https://lnks.gd/l/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDIsInVy…> outlined steps the Census Bureau is taking to modernize the procedures we use to protect respondent data. Our adoption of formal privacy will allow us to strengthen safeguards and increase transparency about the impact of privacy protections on data accuracy. As Deputy Director Ron Jarmin previously stated <https://lnks.gd/l/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDMsInVy…>, we do not plan to implement formal privacy for the full suite of ACS data products before 2025. In the interim, we will continue to evaluate existing privacy protections and bolster them as necessary to address privacy risks that emerge. Our goal is to maintain the utility of the ACS as the preeminent federal survey for federal, state and local data users, while remaining committed to our legal obligations to protect confidentiality.** One area where we are strengthening our disclosure avoidance methods is the count of final interviews published in our quality measures and other detailed tables. We will continue to publish the quality measures tables that provide this information for /select/ geographies. But we are discontinuing the tables that included this information for /all/ geographies.^^[1] <#_ftn1> In addition, we are adding “noise” to the interview counts to cut the risk of disclosure while still providing a general indicator of data quality for the geography of interest. We will continue to publish the household sample sizes selected for invitation to complete the ACS, without added noise or rounding. The reason: These sample sizes are properties of the ACS design, not its realized sample, and provide a more robust indicator of data quality for very small geographies. Table B98001 (Unweighted Housing Unit Sample) will be published for nation, state, county and place in both the 1-year and 5-year ACS beginning with the 2019 ACS release. Previously, the table was not published for places in the 1-year ACS. A new table will be created of final person interviews, which will be released for nation, state, county and place in the 1-year and 5-year ACS. This will provide the same information as the former B00001, but will be restricted to the same summary levels as B98001. The Census Bureau has a tradition and public expectation of producing high quality statistics while protecting the confidentiality of respondents. We will work closely with our scientific and data user communities as we explore options for modernizing ACS privacy protections while ensuring the data products’ continued high quality and fitness-for-use. The Census Bureau is funding collaboration opportunities with external researchers on the issue of formal privacy for sample surveys. A key deliverable of such collaboration will be establishing effective data user engagement. We will provide more information about this effort as it becomes available. 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5 years, 1 month

[CTPP] CTPP Testimonials

by Weinberger

Good Morning, The marketing department at AASHTO is taking a crack at helping us get more on the map. One major benefit to this is that when our next funding cycle rolls around (2023) we will be a bit ahead in the "materials for decision makers" department. To this end, if you have some success story or testimonial regarding the CTPP, I would love to hear about it. It may be tweeted, posted to Facebook or Instagram (if visual), or used in future marketing. If you would rather send them to me, and not the whole list, that would be great: pweinberger(a)aashto.org<mailto:pweinberger(a)aashto.org>. I've included a couple examples below my signature, to give you ideas. Thanks, Penelope Weinberger CTPP Program Manager AASHTO Ctpp.transportation.org "The CTPP program is a vital component for understanding travel in the state of Florida. The data, along with the technical support provided by AASHTO helps Florida understand the nature of the workforce in Florida, how, when, and where they travel for work, and the impacts on congestion and transportation operations. The CTPP data is a cost effective tool for helping Florida DOT achieve its mission of providing for the mobility of people and ensuring economic prosperity by helping provide a data driven solution to transportation problems." - Florida Department of Transportation Several major model development projects in the state of Colorado have used CTPP Journey-to-Work data, including development of activity-based models for the Denver region and for the entire state. CTPP is one of the "go-to" sources of travel pattern data that is genuinely independent of the travel survey data commonly used to estimate these models. Unbiased, independent data of this type is very hard to come by, and the CTPP is a critical piece of just about any model development project puzzle.

5 years, 1 month

[CTPP] Life After American Factfinder: Tidycensus Step #1

by Charles Purvis

Example #1. Tidycensus examples: one year, multiple geographies, multiple variables This is an example of a simple script to “pull” select variables from the ACS using my Census API key and the R package tidycensus. Step #0. Always need to load the relevant packages/libraries when starting up a new R-session. Otherwise, it won’t work. Comments start with hashtag “#”. It’s more obvious when using R-Studio. # Step 0: Load relevant libraries into each R-session. library(tidyverse) library(tidycensus) library(janitor) Example #1.1 pulls the 2018 ACS data for San Francisco Bay Area counties, for table C03002 (population by race/ethnicity). It’s pulled into a “data frame” called “county1”. Though the keywords (survey, year, geography, etc.) can be in any order within the “get_acs()” statement, I prefer leading with: 1. Survey=”acs1” – am I using the 1-year or 5-year databases 2. Year=2018 - what’s the last year of the 1-yr/5-year database 3. Geography=”county” – what level of geography am I pulling? US, State? County? Congressional District? Place? See the tidycensus documentation, and the author’s website, for all of this and more! https://walker-data.com/tidycensus/articles/basic-usage.html <https://walker-data.com/tidycensus/articles/basic-usage.html> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tidycensus/tidycensus.pdf <https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tidycensus/tidycensus.pdf> https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/tidycensus/ <https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/tidycensus/> # Simple Example #1.1: Population by Race/Ethnicity, 2018, SF Bay, Table C03002 # Note that tidycensus can use either the County Name or the County FIPS Code number. # Experiment with output="wide" versus output="tidy" ("tidy" is the default.) ##################################################################################### county1 <- get_acs(survey="acs1", year=2018, geography = "county", state = "CA", # county=c(1,13,41,55,75,81,85,95,97), county=c("Alameda","Contra Costa","Marin","Napa","San Francisco", "San Mateo","Santa Clara","Solano","Sonoma"), show_call = TRUE, output="wide", table="C03002") Example #1.2 is a variation on the previous script portion and pulls out population by race/ethnicity for ALL California counties, 2014/18 five-year ACS. If I used “ACS1” and “2018”, I’d only obtain data for the largest counties with 65,000+ total population! # Simple Example #1.2: Population by Race/Ethnicity, 2014-2018, All California Counties, Table B03002 # If the list of counties is excluded, # then data is pulled for all counties in the State ###################################################################################### AllCalCounties <- get_acs(survey="acs5", year=2018, geography = "county", state = "CA", show_call = TRUE, output="wide", table="B03002") Example #1.3 pulls out population by race/ethnicity for ALL Congressional Districts in California, for the single year 2018 ACS. # Simple Example #1.3: Population by Race/Ethnicity, 2018, California Congress Dists, Table C03002 # This example pulls the congressional districts from California. Eliminate state="CA" to get congressional districts from the entire United States ###################################################################################### congdist1 <- get_acs(survey="acs1", year=2018, geography = "congressional district", state = "CA", show_call = TRUE, output="wide", table="C03002") Example #1.4 Names the variables using mnemonic names for population by race/ethnicity, 2018, single year ACS, Bay Area counties. I’m using the janitor package “adorn_totals” function to sum up regional totals. The tidycensus package will append “E” to variable estimates and “M” to variable margins of error (90 percent confidence level, by default). So, the variable “White_NH_E” will mean, to me, at least, “Estimates of White Non-Hispanic Population” and “White_NH_M” will mean: “Margin of Error, 90% confidence level, of White Non-Hispanic Population.” # Simple Example #1.4.1: Population by Race/Ethnicity: Bay Counties: Naming Variables. # User-defined mnemonic variable names, since "C03002_001_E" doesn't fall trippingly on the tongue! # the underscore is useful since tidycensus will append "E" to estimates and "M" to margin of error # variables, e.g., "Total_E" and "Total_M" ###################################################################################### county2 <- get_acs(survey="acs1", year=2018, geography = "county", state = "CA", county=c(1,13,41,55,75,81,85,95,97), show_call = TRUE, output="wide", variables = c(Total_ = "C03002_001", # Universe is Total Population White_NH_ = "C03002_003", # Non-Hispanic White Black_NH_ = "C03002_004", # Non-Hispanic Black AIAN_NH_ = "C03002_005", # NH, American Indian & Alaskan Native Asian_NH_ = "C03002_006", # Non-Hispanic Asian NHOPI_NH_ = "C03002_007", # NH, Native Hawaiian & Other Pacific Isl. Other_NH_ = "C03002_008", # Non-Hispanic Other Multi_NH_ = "C03002_009", # Two-or-More Races, Non-Hispanic Hispanic_ = "C03002_012")) # Hispanic/Latino # Sometimes the results of TIDYCENSUS aren't sorted, so: county2 <- county2[order(county2$GEOID),] ########################################################################### # Simple Example #1.4.2: Add a new record: SF Bay Area, as sum of records 1-9 # adorn_totals is a function from the package janitor. # The name="06888" is arbitrary, just a filler for the GEOID column. tempxxx <- adorn_totals(county2,name="06888") tempxxx[10,2]="San Francisco Bay Area" county3 <- tempxxx # Set a working directory, and write out CSV files as wanted. # This is an example for a Mac, with the folder tidycensus_work on the desktop, and # the folder output within tidycensus_work setwd("~/Desktop/tidycensus_work/output") write.csv(county3,"ACS18_BayAreaCounties.csv") ############################################################################# At the end of this step I’m writing out CSV (comma separated value) files which I then open in Excel for finishing touches to tables, manually editing the variable names to something les cryptic: That’s all for today! Chuck Purvis, Retired Person, Hayward, California (Formerly of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, San Francisco, California) Take care!!

5 years, 2 months

[CTPP] Life After American Factfinder: TidyCensus Step #0

by Charles Purvis

Here’s my first followup to my 7/16/2020 post on using tidycensus in a post-American Factfinder era. Attached to this e-mail is a short text file (“r” suffix) that can be edited for your use. Example #0. Setting up tidycensus. This is an introduction to the use of the R-package tidycensus in extracting data from the US Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. I’m adding snippets of R code from my R-scripts, and attaching the full r-script to this message. First things first: Acquaint yourself with the American Community Survey. What I would strongly recommend is to download and print out copies of the various ACS survey questionnaires. Know what was asked! Decennial Census questionnaires: https://www.census.gov/history/www/through_the_decades/questionnaires/ <https://www.census.gov/history/www/through_the_decades/questionnaires/> American Community Survey questionnaires: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/methodology/questionnaire-archi… <https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/methodology/questionnaire-archi…> Next, I would recommend downloading the “table shells” from the Census Bureau’s website, and not rely on just on the tidycensus “load_variables” function. Get the table shells for all of the years: the ACS does change ever so often, and so do the tables! I find it useful to have part of my computer screen opened with the table shells visible in Excel. ACS Table Shells: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/technical-documentation/table-s… <https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/technical-documentation/table-s…> I find it useful to have on hand a guide to the ACS table numbering scheme, so you know your “B” and “C” and “S” and “GCT” tables and the two-digit subject indicator (“08” – Journey-to-Work”). https://censusreporter.org/topics/table-codes/ <https://censusreporter.org/topics/table-codes/> Download and install the free software package R Studio. There are other YouTube videos you can watch about learning/installing R and R Studio, and I won’t cover those here. https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/#download <https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/#download> Launch R Studio. There are a few add-on packages that first need to be installed onto your computer, and then “loaded” into your working R session. # Step 1 Install R packages. If installed in previous sessions, there is no need to re-install. # You may need to install the packages "tidyr" and "sp" for "tidycensus" to be properly installed. install.packages("tidyverse") install.packages("tidycensus") install.packages("janitor") # Step 2: Load relevant libraries into each R-session. library(tidyverse) library(tidycensus) library(janitor) Acquire a Census API key from the Census Bureau. It’s free. It’s a 40 character string that identifies a unique API user and helps the Census Bureau improve their tools to access census data. They’ll e-mail you a key in no time at all. https://www.census.gov/data/developers/updates/new-discovery-tool.html <https://www.census.gov/data/developers/updates/new-discovery-tool.html> https://api.census.gov/data/key_signup.html <https://api.census.gov/data/key_signup.html> Install your 40-character API key into your R “environment.” Just one time and no need to concern yourself ever again about this key. # Step 3: Load the User's Census API Key. # Census API Key was installed in previous sessions, so no need to re-install # un-comment out the following statement with the user's API key. # census_api_key("fortycharacterkeysentbyCensusBureau",install=TRUE) The last section of this introduction relates to using the “load_variables” as a tool to assist in selecting various variables. I prefer to download the ACS Table Shells into Excel, and then have appropriate Table Shells opened, alongside R Studio, to aid me in variable selection and naming. # Step 4: Explore the Data Variables using the load_variables() function # Use the function load_variables() to view all of the possible variables for analysis # load_variables works for both decennial census and American Community Survey databases acs18_variable_list <- load_variables(year = 2018, dataset = "acs5", cache = TRUE) acs18p_variable_list <- load_variables(year = 2018, dataset = "acs5/profile", cache = TRUE) # Maybe write out the data frame to the desktop, for easier in use in Excel? write.csv(acs18_variable_list,'acs18_variable_list.csv', row.names=FALSE) View(acs18_variable_list) As of this summer 2020, tidycensus can be used to extract the “base” and “collapsed” tables for all years of the ACS, from 2005 through 2018 “single year” databases; the five-year ACS databases starting with 2005/09 through to 2014/18; and the decennial census files for 2010, 2000 and 1990. For the decennial censuses, databases include the SF1 (Summary File #1) for 1990, 2000 and 2010; and the SF3 (Summary File #3) for 1990 and 2000. (There was no long form census in the 2010 Census, so, thus no long-form-based SF3 data for 2010!) (I have yet to explore how to pull data from the decennial censuses using tidycensus, and would be grateful to hear news of successes/failures.) A word of warning: R is very case sensitive. Something like View(acs18_variable_list) will work okay, but view(acs18_variable_list) will not work!! That’s the end of Step #0… Setting up Tidycensus! Chuck Purvis, Hayward, California Retired Person (formerly of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, San Francisco, California)\

5 years, 2 months

[CTPP] ASA Session on the Politics of the Census on Sunday

by Krishnan Viswanathan

ICYMI Panel to discuss the politics of the census at the American Sociological Association. The event will take place this Sunday in cyberspace. https://umn.zoom.us/j/98520151584 Krishnan Viswanathan 5628 Burnside Circle Tallahassee FL 32312

5 years, 2 months

[CTPP] Life after American FactFinder. Hello to tidycensus! (full backstory)

by Charles Purvis

As promised/threatened, here is my full backstory on the demise of American FactFinder and the rise of tidy census! Well, I was a bit mystified and ever so slightly chagrined when the US Census Bureau decided to pull the plug on American FactFinder (AFF) on March 30, 2020. “I’ve Grown Accustomed to it’s Face.” As a dutiful citizen census analyst, I thought I’d give the new site http://data.census.gov/ a good look. After a good look, I was really considering just giving up: no more census data and just be a regular retired person. Analyzing census data is a hobby, and analyzing census data with the new data portal is a real chore/ grind/ hassle/ headache. One major complaint about data.census.gov: you can’t access the older single year American Community Survey data for 2005 through 2009. (You could, in American FactFinder, but alas the AFF no longer exists!) So, if you want single year data for 2005 through 2018 for your large city/county/region, well, sorry Charlie. I’ve toyed for years of using the “R” package for analyzing census data. I’m an old SAS package programmer, and I was always of the opinion (and custom) to just use SAS (and Excel, and AFF) for my basic analysis of any census data. But SAS is very expensive, and R is free, so, there might be something about “Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks” and to start learning/using R. The key to analyzing census data in R is the Census Bureau’s API (Application Programming Interface.) I’ve heard about APIs for years (never knew what “API” stood for!), but it seemed like too much to learn when we had American Factfinder to get what we needed and wanted. I’m not sure when I found out about the R package “tidycensus.” But it sounded worthwhile checking out, and I installed it on my home Mac desktop computer. This was in mid-May. Something for me to do while sheltering-in-place. I then started to learn about “tidycensus” by watching various YouTube and Census Bureau videos. Tidycensus is a free, add-on R package created in 2017 by Professor Kyle Walker at TCU in Fort Worth, Texas. Along with “tidycensus” there is the “tidyverse” and “tigris” and other packages that I have yet to learn. These YouTube/Census Bureau videos made learning “tidycensus” a breeze!!! I’m VERY impressed with what we can do with “tidycensus.” On the other hand, I spent many hours learning how to do even the simplest things using “R”: concatenating (stacking) files; merging files using a join variable; reading and writing “csv” files; subsetting files, etc. I’m getting the hang of using “R” but my overall proficiency is still at a “newbie” level. So, to wrap up this long introduction, here are various YouTube and Census Bureau webinar videos as a best introduction to tidycensus. I am highly recommending them to all census data analysts!! Getting Started with R and R Studio by “How to R” (14:37, 9/1/2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVKMsaWju8w <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVKMsaWju8w> Kyle Walker: Census Data in R: An Overview (3:54, 2/25/20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDyGuWrBC-M <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDyGuWrBC-M> Kyle Walker R Tutorial: Searching for data with tidycensus (3:10, 2/25/20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJRoubBvyq4 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJRoubBvyq4> Kyle Walker: Basic tidy census functionality (2:30, 2/25/20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i09Pc7orAYg <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i09Pc7orAYg> Dr. Kyle Walker is an Associate Professor of Geography at the Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. Mary Jo Webster: Using TidyCensus in R, part 1 (26:50, 4/3/20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW39e-ydytA&t=1s <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW39e-ydytA&t=1s> Mary Jo Webster: Using TidyCensus in R, part 2 (18:37, 4/3/20) https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tidycensus <https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tidycensus> Ms. Webster is a data journalist at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Amanda Klimek: Using the Census Bureau Application Programming Interface (API) with the American Community Survey (ACS), June 26, 2019, US Census Bureau webinar https://www.census.gov/data/academy/webinars/2019/api-acs.html <https://www.census.gov/data/academy/webinars/2019/api-acs.html> Amanda Klimek is a survey statistician with the American Community Survey Office Here’s the home page for tidycensus: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tidycensus/index.html <https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tidycensus/index.html> I’m creating my own set of sample tidycensus r-scripts that I’m looking to share with the community. Let me know if this would help? Stay safe!! Chuck Purvis, Hayward, California (formerly of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, San Francisco, California) clpurvis(a)att.net <mailto:clpurvis(a)att.net>

5 years, 2 months

[CTPP] Life after American FactFinder. Hello to tidycensus!

by Charles Purvis

Hello all!! I hope everyone is staying safe. This is the tail-end of a longer post I want to contribute. The longer post gives a full backstory to what I’m posting right now. It's about the end of American FactFinder and the use of the R-package tidycensus. Here are various YouTube and Census Bureau webinar videos as a best introduction to tidycensus. I am highly recommending them to all census data analysts!! Getting Started with R and R Studio by “How to R” (14:37, 9/1/2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVKMsaWju8w <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVKMsaWju8w> Kyle Walker: Census Data in R: An Overview (3:54, 2/25/20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDyGuWrBC-M <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDyGuWrBC-M> Kyle Walker R Tutorial: Searching for data with tidycensus (3:10, 2/25/20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJRoubBvyq4 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJRoubBvyq4> Kyle Walker: Basic tidy census functionality (2:30, 2/25/20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i09Pc7orAYg <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i09Pc7orAYg> Dr. Kyle Walker is an Associate Professor of Geography at the Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. Mary Jo Webster: Using TidyCensus in R, part 1 (26:50, 4/3/20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW39e-ydytA&t=1s <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW39e-ydytA&t=1s> Mary Jo Webster: Using TidyCensus in R, part 2 (18:37, 4/3/20) https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tidycensus <https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tidycensus> Ms. Webster is a data journalist at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Amanda Klimek: Using the Census Bureau Application Programming Interface (API) with the American Community Survey (ACS), June 26, 2019, US Census Bureau webinar https://www.census.gov/data/academy/webinars/2019/api-acs.html <https://www.census.gov/data/academy/webinars/2019/api-acs.html> Amanda Klimek is a survey statistician with the American Community Survey Office Here’s the home page for tidycensus: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tidycensus/index.html <https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tidycensus/index.html> I’m creating my own set of sample tidycensus r-scripts that I’m looking to share with the community. Let me know if this would help? Stay safe!! Chuck Purvis, Hayward, California (formerly of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, San Francisco, California) clpurvis(a)att.net <mailto:clpurvis(a)att.net>

5 years, 2 months

[CTPP] Fwd: CTPP in the news...

by Ed Christopher

This article may be of interest to some. If you know of other uses of the CTPP data feel free to share them. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: CTPP in the news... Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 15:16:14 +0000 From: Weinberger Penelope <pweinberger(a)aashto.org> To: > http://advocate.la.app.newsmemory.com/publink.php?shareid=085383e2b Penelope Weinberger CTPP Program Manager AASHTO Ctpp.transportation.org

5 years, 5 months

[CTPP] CEDSCI Deep Link Tutorial

by Mara Kaminowitz

Hello, For those of you fighting with the new CEDSCI website, you can access tables directly through URL "deep links." I have found for simple tasks, like getting several tables for all counties in a state, this is faster than going through the web search and table filter. http://www.northarrow.org/CEDSCI_Deep_Link_Tutorial.pdf Mara ___________ *Mara Kaminowitz* GIS Coordinator Baltimore Metropolitan Council *P*: 410.732.0500 x1030 *F*: 410.732.8248 *A*: 1500 Whetstone Way, Suite 300, Baltimore, MD 21230 mkaminowitz(a)baltometro.org | www.baltometro.org Confidentiality Statement This message may contain legally privileged and confidential information that is intended only for the use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not an intended recipient, taking any action based on the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. Please immediately notify the sender if you have received this message in error.

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