r4ds
R for data science: a book (by hadley)
tidycensus
Load US Census boundary and attribute data as 'tidyverse' and 'sf'-ready data frames in R (by walkerke)
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| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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r4ds
Posts with mentions or reviews of r4ds.
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- Ask HN: Learning Maths from the Ground Up
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Any suggestions on where I can learn R studio for an affordable cost?
https://r4ds.hadley.nz is free and very good
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Help with Understanding data loading/cleaning in R.
R for Data Science teaches you the tidyverse packages, which makes data wrangling so much easier!
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Learning R & statistics
One of the best free resources is the R4DS book by Hadley Wickham. You should make sure you start with the in progress second edition. https://r4ds.hadley.nz/
- Trying to learn Rstudio
- Questions as incoming PhD political science student
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First R project
The first edition of R4DS is quite old now. Check out the soon to be released second edition: https://r4ds.hadley.nz/
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Is R dead?
R for Data Science (2nd Ed), the updated guide from Hadley Wickham
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[Career] Strong Mathematics Background, Limited "Technical" Background
The big skills gap you have is in practical data exploration and transformation, which will be a large part of any data-centric role. As much as people may have distaste for it, there is no avoiding data manipulation as critical foundational enabler of all inferential and predictive modeling work. SQL is the lingua franca here and well worth picking up the basics (joins, window functions, handling dates and times, etc.), plus learning how to implement similar transformations in R and Python. With appropriately transformed data, you then need to be able to visualize it effectively using tools like Tableau or ggplot2 in R. I would not necessarily seek courses or certificates in it but expect to be evaluated on them in technical interview screenings, so self-study accordingly. R for Data Science by Hadley Wickham is a great free resource for these topics for R.
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There’s a lot of data science books out there, any recommendations for must-reads?
I just looked and there is now a second edition! https://r4ds.hadley.nz/
tidycensus
Posts with mentions or reviews of tidycensus.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-06.
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US county names dataset?
You could use the tidycensus package to get the information you need
- ACS Data in easily Digestable Format
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Help!! Dataset required for Supervised Linear Regression | Learning purposes
the census (accessible using tidycensus or you can download bulk data straight from their website)
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People who live near other people vote for Democrats
Data sources: Minnesota Secretary of State website, American Community Survey via tidycensus
- A blog post on learning R for spatial data science
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Anyone know if there's a US Time Zones by Zip Code DB out there
If you happen to use R the tidycensus package is absolutely fantastic.
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(MAPS) There are about 1,800 Ukrainian-born Hoosiers and 8,000 Hoosiers with Ukrainian ancestry
Thanks! I used the tidycensus package in RStudio https://walker-data.com/tidycensus/
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Finding Usable US Census Data
R has a few packages for this and the first that comes to mind is tidycensus (https://walker-data.com/tidycensus/).
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NJ Population mapping by block group
If you have some facility with R, then the 'tidycensus' package is your answer here. You can get the latest ACS (2019) data at the block group level with that. Alternatively, NHGIS from the IPUMS folks offers access to census tabular and spatial data in a straightforward format.
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SF object pivot/spread results in improperly pivoted object (NA values)
This indicates the polygons are different - I would ASSUME that the shape for a US county does not change too much (or ever) so I feel like its an issue with the package [tidycensus](https://walker-data.com/tidycensus/).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing r4ds and tidycensus you can also consider the following projects:
swirl - :cyclone: Learn R, in R.
latlong - The latlong package maps from a latitude and longitude to a timezone.
fasteR - Fast Lane to Learning R!
sf - Simple Features for R
tidytuesday - Official repo for the #tidytuesday project
dplyr - dplyr: A grammar of data manipulation
viridis - Colorblind-Friendly Color Maps for R
ggplot2 - An implementation of the Grammar of Graphics in R
lab02_R_intro - Vežbe 2: Uvod u R
baseballr - A package written for R focused on baseball analysis. Currently in development.
R-vs.-Python-for-Data-Science
hoopR - An R package to quickly obtain clean and tidy men's basketball play by play data.