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 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…
An Introduction to Impact Charts
Impact charts are a tool for visually interpreting the relationships between variables. In this post, we will look at some impact charts generated from a combination of eviction filing data…
Adding the DHC-A Data Set to censusdis
One of the design goals of the censusdis project is that as new data sets are added or existing data sets and variables change from year to year, the system…
Censusdis Tutorial – PyData Seattle 2023 Video
Thanks to all who attended my tutorial on using U.S. Census data in Python at PyData Seattle 2023. And thanks to the PyData organizers for putting on such a great…
Censusdis Tutorial Now Online
As I mentioned in Join me at PyData Seattle 2023, yesterday I presented a 90 minute tutorial on the censusdis package for querying and working with U.S. Census data in…
Diversity and Integration – Open Source Code
We are pleased to announce that we have released the code used to produce the data and visualizations behind I Want to Visit Ligonier, Indiana and Diversity and Integration in…