Week 9: Data Retrieval
 Prof. Jack Reilly
 Fall 2026

Due This Week: Practicum 1
Lecture: Advanced Workflow and Data Retrieval
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Readings & Reference Material
•	Databases
–	DMSS, ch 8
–	RDS, ch 21
•	Data Sources
–	The GSSR package
–	The tidycensus package
•	Advanced Programming
–	FCSP, ch 4
–	RDS, ch 12-19. Much contained here is already duplicative of material we have previously covered (see: joins, missing values, etc), but much is new. As usual, use it as a reference
Computational Work
•	Sign up for a US Census API Key
Due Next Week: Problem Set 8