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| | With the 2020 U.S. Census in motion already, I've been looking at various pieces of data from the Census Bureau. I decided I wanted to draw some population pyramids for the U.S. over as long a time series as I could. What's needed for that are tables for, say, as many years as possible that show the number of males and females alive at every year of age from zero to the highest age you're willing to track. This sort of data is available on the Census website. But it tuned out to be somewhat tedious to assemble into a single usable series. (Perhaps it's available in an easy-to-digest form elsewhere, but I couldn't find it.) I initially worked with a couple of the excellent R packages that talk to the Census API (tidycensus and censusapi), hoping they'd give m...
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| | I set out to improve a Sankey plot that had been shared as an example of how bad they are, and hopefully show that some careful design decisions and polish can make these plot useful for purposes like seeing cohorts' progress (up, down, same) over time.
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| | Learn how to create professional graphics and plots in R (histogram, barplot, boxplot, scatter plot, line plot, density plot, etc.) with the ggplot2 package
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| A CNN reporter recently spoke with several supporters of former President Donald Trump in a small town in the Texas panhandle, and the general sentiment among those he interviewed was that President Joe Biden should be less divisive. Just don't tell them how the theme of Biden's inaugural address on Wednesday was, above all else,