US Census

Maps that look at the US Census at the macro-perspective of all counties in the United States.

Methods, Maps, and Models in R

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Analyzing US Census Data: Methods, Maps, and Models in R

Census data are widely used in the United States across numerous research and applied fields, including education, business, journalism, and many others. Until recently, the process of working with US Census data has required the use of a wide array of web interfaces and software platforms to prepare, map, and present data products. The goal of this book is to illustrate the utility of the R programming language for handling these tasks, allowing Census data users to manage their projects in a single computing environment.

NPR

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Census interference by Trump administration detailed in email : NPR

Former President Donald Trump's administration alarmed career civil servants at the Census Bureau by not only ending the 2020 national head count early, but also pressuring them to alter plans for protecting people's privacy and producing accurate data, a newly released email shows.

If you are downloading summary files for use in PANDAS, it is a good idea to keep each summary file in a separate zip file

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Pro Tip: If you are downloading US Census summary files for use in PANDAS, it is a good idea to keep each summary file in a separate compressed ZIP file. PANDAS will automatically uncompress zip files on the fly if they have only one file inside, and it will cut your hard drive needs by roughly 90% over uncompressed — plus on modern computers ZIP decompression of a few megabyte zip file isn’t particularly slow, and chances are you only going to be processing a few segments at a time.