Impact Chart Analysis 101
I have written about impact charts before (see here, here, and the OG post here), but I have neglected to give them a proper introduction. What are they, exactly? What…
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…
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…
Using Interpretable Machine Learning to Analyze Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Home Values
Introduction There have been a number of well-publicized cases in recent years in which homes belonging to Black families were appraised at substantially lower value than those owned by white…
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…
On the Diversity of Similarity and the Similarity of Diversity
Introduction After I published I Want to Visit Ligonier, Indiana, Peter Shapiro reached out to me with some interesting questions about the method I used to measure diversity and integration.…