Census APIs and tidycensus: Getting Census data into R the easy way

Fri, April 9, 2021 1:00 PM - Fri, April 9, 2021 2:00 PM at Zoom

Social scientists engaged in domestic research will typically utilize at least some of the U.S. Census data, an assemblage of over 100 different censuses, surveys, and data collection programs. While many download the data "by hand" from a web-based repository and import it into R, there is a quicker and often cleaner approach that uses the census API and the R package tidycensus. In this intermediate-level workshop you will learn more about census data (collection, geographies, types, errors) and how to use the tidycensus in R to directly access census data. After this workshop you should be able to start to automate your census data collection and easily streamline these data into your research.

• Time: 1:00P.M. - 2:00P.M., April 9, 2021 (Friday)
• Registration: RSVP April 8, 2021 (Thursday)
• Zoom Invitation will be provided one day before the workshop to RSVP
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