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A “Pre-Training” R Survey
Recently I’ve been working with a client to help their analysts improve their proficiency with R. A major challenge in engagements like this is figuring out the needs of the analysts, as well as their...
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Meeting Titans of Open Data
The recent Association of Public Data Users (APDU) Conference gave me the opportunity to meet some people who have made tremendous contributions to the world of Open Data. Jon Sperling The author with...
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Free Software Foundation “Social Benefit” Award Nominations
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...
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New Project: Data Science Instruction at the US Census Bureau!
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...
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R Programmers: What is your biggest problem when working with Census data?
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...
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Update on My Collaboration with the Census Bureau
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...
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Difficult to Reproduce Choroplethr Bug: Can You Help?
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...
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Update: “Difficult to Reproduce Choroplethr Bug” Isolated and Fixed
Yesterday I wrote that I’ve received a number of choroplethr bug reports recently that I simply cannot reproduce. Due to a large number of people replying with their system information, along with...
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My Proposal to the R Consortium
I recently submitted a Proposal to the R Consortium. I decided to share this proposal on my blog for two reasons: To raise awareness of an opportunity I see in the R ecosystem. To raise awareness of...
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New Version of ggplot2
I just received a note from Hadley Wickham that a new version of ggplot2 is scheduled to be submitted to CRAN on June 25. Here’s what choroplethr users need to know about this new version of ggplot2....
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Choroplethr v3.6.2 is now on CRAN
A new version of Choroplethr is now on CRAN! You can get it by typing the following from the R Console: install.packages("choroplethr") I encourage all Choroplethr users to install this new version!...
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New Version of Choroplethr.com!
Last year I decided to take out the domain Choroplethr.com. I used it to host information about Choroplethr, my suite of R packages for mapping demographic statistics. A year and a half later, I’ve...
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Census Academy Update!
Last year I announced a collaboration with the Census Bureau to help with their new online training platform. This website, called “Census Academy”, is designed to help the public learn how to work...
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R Consortium Proposal Accepted!
Today I am happy to announce that my proposal to the R Consortium was accepted! I first announced that I was submitting a proposal back in March. As a reminder, the proposal has two distinct parts:...
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Notes from the 2018 APDU Conference
I recently attended the 2018 Association of Public Data Users (APDU) conference. This was my second time attending the conference, and I enjoyed learning more about how other people use federal...
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Update on R Consortium Census Guide
As I mentioned in July, my proposal to the R Consortium to create a Guide to Working with Census Data in R was accepted. Today I’d like to share an update on the project. The proposal breaks the...
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Update on the R Consortium Census Working Group
It’s been a while since I shared any information about the R Consortium’s Census Working Group. Today I’d like to share an update on three projects which the group is involved in. The project which you...
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“A Guide to Working With Census Data in R” is now Complete!
Two weeks ago I mentioned that I was clearing my calendar until I finished writing A Guide to Working with Census Data in R. Today I’m happy to announce that the Guide is complete! I even took out a...
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Today I am happy to announce a new free course: Help Your Team Learn R! Over the last few years I’ve helped a number of data teams train their analysts to use R. At each company there was a skilled R...
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New Free R Course on Census.gov!
Today I am happy to announce that a new free course on Choroplethr – Mapping Census Bureau Data in R with Choroplethr – is available on Census Academy, the US Census Bureau’s new training platform!...
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