Working with Non-Nested Census Geographies in Censusdis
Introduction Most U.S. Census data sets are keyed by geography. Concepts like population, median income, and gender, race, or age ranges of residents are only meaningful when we tie them…
Censusdis was Ready for the ACS 2022 Data Before it was Even Released
This morning I woke up to an email from the U.S. Census Bureau announcing that the American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year data for 2018-2022 was just released. This is big…
Command-Line censusdis for Plotting Maps
In an earlier post entitled Command-Line censusdis for Data Pipelines and One-Time Analysis, we discussed how the new command-line interface (CLI) to censusdis can be used to download and manipulate…
Command-Line censusdis for Data Pipelines and One-Time Analysis
censusdis is a package for discovering, loading, analyzing, and computing diversity, integration, and segregation metrics to U.S. Census demographic data. Recently, I found myself writing a number of small scripts…