Census Bureau demonstrates how to map American Community Survey data using R
U.S. Census Bureau presenters Vicky Mack and Jessica Klein walked webinar attendees through the ACS, the Census API, recommended R packages (tidycensus, tigris, tidyverse), and reproducible workflows for fetching ACS estimates, joining shapefiles, and creating static and interactive maps; slides and example code are on GitHub.
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The U.S. Census Bureau hosted a webinar showing how to map American Community Survey (ACS) data with the R programming language, demonstrating API calls, R packages and example workflows, presenters said.
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