#uscensus — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #uscensus, aggregated by home.social.
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Added the all-important hex logo to my censuschat #RStats 📦😀 [censuschat lets you ask natural language questions about US Census data, it returns answers and the tidycensus R code that generated its response] #Census #USCensus
https://github.com/smach/censuschat
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The Republican Plan to Reform the Census Could Put Everyone’s Privacy at Risk
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/republicans-differential-privacy-census-overhaul/
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The Republican Plan to Reform the Census Could Put Everyone’s Privacy at Risk
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/republicans-differential-privacy-census-overhaul/
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The Republican Plan to Reform the Census Could Put Everyone’s Privacy at Risk
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/republicans-differential-privacy-census-overhaul/
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The Republican Plan to Reform the Census Could Put Everyone’s Privacy at Risk
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/republicans-differential-privacy-census-overhaul/
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The Republican Plan to Reform the Census Could Put Everyone’s Privacy at Risk
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/republicans-differential-privacy-census-overhaul/
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What ID can you use to get data for a specific topic in the US Census 1-year American Community Survey? I made an experimental Custom GPT where you ask a natural language question and get a response. Free ChatGPT account needed.
https://chatgpt.com/g/g-67c7c1012ea081918c52c6f25480af2b-find-american-community-survey-1-year-variable-ids
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#virginia is divided in 4 parts
8.8m people july24
2.4m NOT eligible to #vote 27.7%
2.3m #harriswalz 26.5%
2.1m trumpVance 23.5%
0.1m other 1.1%
1.9m eligible did not vote 21.2%Sources #UScensus, #UFelectionLab, #FEC
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"Working with Decennial Census Data in R" - video from last week's workshop with Kyle Walker now up on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NKj8yF2gfo
Final workshop in the 3-part series is *tomorrow*, Wednesday Feb 26 noon to 3 pm: Mapping and Spatial Analysis with US Census Data in R. Info: https://ssdan.net/events/the-2025-ssdan-webinar-series-2023-acs-data-with-r-mapping-tools-and-the-2020-census/
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That is a stunning piece of Census information, that 8 in 10 Americans live within 100 miles of where they grew up (6 in 10 within 10 miles)...
and then: "Most Americans don't know anything about the world around them from their own experience. It's all fed to us via a screen. We are eminently programmable." 😐
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"Any attempt to fill the position with someone involved in partisan political activities will undermine public confidence not only in the bureau's work but the nation's statistics generally," Lowenthal says.
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/30/nx-s1-5258393/census-bureau-director-robert-santos #USCensus #Census2030 #Data #Statistics #PublicHealth #Race #Ethnicity #Disabilities #SexualOrientation #GenderIdentity
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2/2 Also from Kyle Walker: "Copy-paste in this example to try it out, which fits in a post":
library(tidycensus)
library(mapview)get_acs(
geography = "tract",
variables = "B19013_001",
state = "TX",
county = "Tarrant",
year = 2023,
geometry = TRUE
) |>
mapview(zcol = "estimate",
layer.name = "Median HH income<br>2019-2023 ACS")tidycensus: https://walker-data.com/tidycensus/
Kyle's book on analyzing Census data: https://walker-data.com/census-r/ -
From Kyle Walker: "It's release day for the 2019-2023 American Community Survey 5-year data!
"The ACS is a phenomenal PUBLIC and FREE resource for granular demographic information about the US.
"Use the new data *right now* with the
#rstats tidycensus package. Just swap in `year = 2023` in your call to `get_acs()`!"With just a few lines of R code, you can map and explore thousands of variables at the neighborhood level anywhere in the US." 1/2
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Non-exploitative data sharing continues to develop in excellent ways. #uscensus #osage #indigenous #datasovereignty https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024/census-osage-nation-announce-data-sharing-agreement.html?
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Nice City of #Seattle Neighborhood Profiles #dashboard built w/ #ArcGISDashboards https://shorturl.at/tIk1e
#USCensus #data #municipal #govtech #GIS #esri #arcgis #mapping #dataviz #GISchat #geospatial #mapstodon #ArcGISApps @esri @arcgisonline
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Yet another "clutching-pearls" thing for the right wingers to whine about: Last month, the Census Bureau released new data for geographic areas which provide a glimpse of how the nation’s population has been changing over the first third of the 2020s decade. It emphasizes that people of color are the main drivers of population growth for the nation as well as shifts across states, metropolitan areas and counties. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/census-shows-americas-post-2020-population-is-driven-by-diversity-especially-among-the-young/
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Detroit grows in population for the first time in decades
Michigan’s largest has gained population for the first time in more than six decades, according to new population estimates released on Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Detroit gained 1,852 residents between July 1, 2022, and July 1, 2023. It marks the first time since 1957 that the Motor City has not lost population, according to the federal agency.
In 1957, Dwight Eisenhower was president, G. Mennen “Soapy” Williams was the governor of Michigan and the Detroit Lions were National Football League champions.
Last year’s official, adjusted Census population for Detroit was 631,218. Its population now stands at 633,366.
As a result of its gains, Detroit is now ranked as the 26th most populous city in America, up three notches from 29th place this time last year. According to U.S. Census data, Detroit is now larger than Memphis, Louisville and Portland.
#News #Michigan #Detroit #USCensus
https://michiganadvance.com/briefs/detroit-grows-in-population-for-the-first-time-in-decades/
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Ari Lamstein says his "Visualizing the Impact of Covid-19 on US Counties" blog post may be of interest if you want to "learn how to build data apps in Python, as the entire project is released under a permissive license (MIT), and is publicly available on GitHub."
Post: https://arilamstein.com/blog/2024/05/04/visualizing-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-us-counties/
Streamlit app: https://census-explorer.streamlit.app/
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tidycensus creator Kyle Walker: “I've updated my ‘Mapping Immigrant America’ project, an interactive dot-density map of the US foreign-born population, to the latest 2018-2022 ACS data.
“Explore here: https://personal.tcu.edu/kylewalker/immigrant-america/#7.88/41.806/-87.548
“Advancements in #rstats, tidycensus, and Mapbox since I first designed the map nearly a decade ago now mean the data pipeline can run in a single morning, so future maps like this are straightforward to make”
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If this #USCensus survey is legitimate, surely there could be ways for telcos to facilitate clear authentication of messages from truly deserving organizations like the Census Bureau.
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From Kyle Walker, creator of the {tidycensus} #rstats 📦: “On Thursday, March 7th (12pm ET) don’t miss my FREE workshop on mapping US Census data in #rstats hosted by UMich SSDAN!
“You’ll learn how to:
🌎 Get pre-joined spatial Census data without the usual headaches;
🌎 Make interactive maps and dashboards;
🌎 Solve tricky problems like analyzing small-area demographic change over time
Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_S82g8r1DTAyxb5Nbsf7Jhw#/registration
“
#RSpatial #GIS #USCensus @rstats #ddj -
Kyle Walker: “This year, I’ll once again be hosting a webinar series with the University of Michigan’s Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN)! This year’s series is titled Analyzing 2020 Census and 2022 ACS Data with R. The webinar series will take place this February and March and is completely free to attend. You can register for all three webinars from the link below: “
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_S82g8r1DTAyxb5Nbsf7Jhw#/registration
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Does the #USCensus block IPs? I've been trying to use their WMS services for the past hour, and it's been performing poorly. Though I'd go to their site to check if there were a better URL to use, and got a blanket "Access Denied" message!
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People working with US data: The {zctaCrosswalk} #rstats 📦 "is designed to help answer common analytical questions that arise when working with US ZIP Codes. . . . [and] was designed to work well with the {tidycensus} package}"
By Ari Lamstein, on CRAN
https://github.com/MarketBridge/zctaCrosswalk[Below: Choropleth map of median household incomes in San Francisco by Zip Code + R code]
#ddj #TidyCensus #RSpatial #Census #USCensus -
#Undercounted? More #census #data needed on #LGBTQ #community, #experts say.
The decennial #UScensus — the #goldstandard of who exactly makes up the #US #population — does not ask about #sexualorientation or #genderidentity beyond a #strict #male/#female #binary
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Society #Representation #Culture
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/06/19/undercounted-more-census-data-needed-on-lgbtq-community-experts-say/70302264007/ -
“A brand-new version of the #rstats tidycensus package is now on CRAN, supporting the brand-new 2022 Population Estimates (which you can't get from the API). Download the new version today and start making charts like this!” - 📦 author Kyle Walker
https://walker-data.com/tidycensus -
The {lehdr} #rstats 📦 is designed to “query Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) US workplace/residential association and origin-destination flat files and optionally aggregate Census block-level data to block group, tract, county, or state.” By Jamaal Green & others
The LEHD data server “is a unique, and under utilized, tool in the spatial social sciences because getting bulk data is unwieldy...lehdr solves this”
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/lehdr/index.html
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https://archive.org/details/georgia-slaveowners-1850
The 1850 Census of Georgia Slave Owners by Jack F. Cox
Topics
#georgia, #stateofgeorgia, #slaveowners, #slaveowners, #slaveholders, #slavemasters, #blackchattelslavery, #enslavement, #antiblackness, #antebellumsouth, #antebellumperiod, #census, #uscensus, #1850census, #demographics, #demography, #unitedstatesofamerika, #uscapitalism, #colonialismtyped transcription of handwritten original census records taken by the u.s. government.
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The #US is under minority rule
Most Americans want women to have legal #abortions, believe #transgender people should be free from #discrimination, and want stricter #GunControl laws
We didn't get here with #Trump, although his #SupremeCourt picks have sped it up
The #GOP has used #computers and #USCensus data to #gerrymander districts in their favor since 2003 when they got a #Republican in power by literally drawing a #Pennsylvania district of a US House incumbent #Democrat around his house
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Analysis of 2020 census differential privacy test runs shows spatial clustering of error in net migration rates by age.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11113-021-09664-5
#2020 #Census #USCensus #2020Census #Spatial #Clustering #NICHDImpact
