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

 

Kyle Walker: Census Data in R: An Overview (3:54, 2/25/20)

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

 

Kyle Walker: Basic tidy census functionality (2:30, 2/25/20)

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

 

Mary Jo Webster: Using TidyCensus in R, part 2 (18:37, 4/3/20)

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

 

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

 

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@att.net