Summary of Connecticut Covid-19 based on Department of Public Health Data with some comparisons to national data. This has been updated each weekday during 2020 and most of 2021. There are also notes on sources of data for Covid-19 in Connecticut.
Summary of Connecticut Covid-19 based on Department of Public Health Data. In June there is a second blog post with more detail. Both posts have been updated each weekday during 2020 and most of 2021.
Some note and impressions from the 2020 RStudio Conference in San Francisco.
Using the tidycensus package to explore census data. This post shows R code to fetch and map census data, but also gives some tips on how to explore the almost overwhelmind variety of variables available via the Census Bureau.
A description of the demographic structure of Guilford by age compared with other towns. Also provides some background on the geographic location of registered voters in Guilford. This post is very similar to the previous post; it does not include the R code so it is much more readable.
Exploraton of geotagging and gender identification based on voter registration dataset for Guilford. Explores geotagging, identifing gender from first name, US Census, and general data clean-up. To see just the interesting plots without lots of R-related detail, skip this post and read the next one instead.
An example of using a “headless browser” to scrape web content produced by javascript. The data is about compensation of university CEOs and was published by the Chronicle of Higher Education.