Map Census Data with R!

This presentation will show how to use the tidycensus R package to programmatically enrich datasets about Allegheny County and Pittsburgh, such as adjusting statistics for per-capita rates and making map plots.

tidycensus is an R package that enables users to query from the U.S. Census Bureau API. Users can access a wide variety of demographic and economic data about the U.S. population, tidycensus also gives access to various census geometries (census tracts, zip codes, counties) that are exposed by the API. These geometries can be easily plotted with ggplot2.