Week 9: Data Retrieval

Data Wrangling and Visualization

Due This Week: Core Exam (in class)

Lecture: Advanced Workflow and Data Retrieval

💾 Slides on the Course Drive

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