Explore >> Select a destination


You are here

freerangestats.info
| | conormclaughlin.net
3.8 parsecs away

Travel
| | Utilizing the HuffPost Pollster API to retrieve and chart President Trump's job approval across groups and track the generic ballot for the 2018 House race
| | kieranhealy.org
3.0 parsecs away

Travel
| | 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...
| | erdavis.com
3.8 parsecs away

Travel
| | I made a map! And it went viral! Neat! https://twitter.com/erindataviz/status/1489009794245541888 I got a number of requests for the code, so I thought this would be the best forum to share how I made it. To be honest, I whipped this out to quickly to illustrate a concept in Slack, then tweeted it because I liked...
| | tdhock.github.io
29.5 parsecs away

Travel
| Statistical machine learning researcher working on fast optimization algorithms for large data.