Publications by Kyle Walker

acs14lite: A lightweight R interface to the 2010-2014 ACS API

11.12.2015

I use data from the US Census Bureau’s American Community Survey all of the time. I also use R all of the time. Naturally, this means that I often use ACS data in R – which is pertinent given last week’s release of the new 2010-2014 ACS estimates. I wanted easy access to the data to facilitate my on-going research on demographic trends in U...

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Visualizing international demographic indicators with idbr and Plotly

28.01.2016

It’s been a while since I last posted here – but I’ve been working on a new R package that I’m quite excited about, and I thought this would be the right place to post. My new package, idbr, is an R interface to the United States Census Bureau’s International Data Base API. The IDB includes a host of international demographic indicato...

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Visualizing international demographic indicators with idbr and Plotly

28.01.2016

It’s been a while since I last posted here – but I’ve been working on a new R package that I’m quite excited about, and I thought this would be the right place to post. My new package, idbr, is an R interface to the United States Census Bureau’s International Data Base API. The IDB includes a host of international demographic indicato...

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Using a new Mapbox Studio map in an R Leaflet project

17.05.2016

Mapbox recently announced that map styles designed in the new Mapbox Studio are now available as basemaps in other platforms, such as Tableau, CartoDB, and ArcGIS Online: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/use-studio-styles-in-gis-tools/. Previously, this wasn’t possible due to these tools’ incompatibility with the GL-based vector tiles produced by ...

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Using a new Mapbox Studio map in an R Leaflet project

17.05.2016

Mapbox recently announced that map styles designed in the new Mapbox Studio are now available as basemaps in other platforms, such as Tableau, CartoDB, and ArcGIS Online: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/use-studio-styles-in-gis-tools/. Previously, this wasn’t possible due to these tools’ incompatibility with the GL-based vector tiles produced by ...

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idbr: access the US Census Bureau International Data Base in R

06.06.2016

Today’s post is by Kyle Walker, a professor of geography at Texas Christian University. I’ve been a fan of Kyle’s work for a while. When I saw that he wrote a package for accessing the Census Bureau’s International Data Base, I asked him to write a guest post about it. The US Census Bureau’s International Data Base (IDB) is one of the b...

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Interactive flow visualization in R

26.06.2016

Exploring flows between origins and destinations visually is a common task, but can be difficult to get right. In R, there are many tutorials on the web that show how to produce static flow maps (see here, here, here, and here, among others). Over the past couple years, R developers have created an infrastructure to bridge R with JavaScript using...

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Interactive flow visualization in R

26.06.2016

Exploring flows between origins and destinations visually is a common task, but can be difficult to get right. In R, there are many tutorials on the web that show how to produce static flow maps (see here, here, here, and here, among others). Over the past couple years, R developers have created an infrastructure to bridge R with JavaScript using...

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Reproducing the Washington Post housing price maps with R and ggplot2

29.06.2016

This week, Emily Badger and Darla Cameron at The Washington Post’s Wonkblog published an article (linked here) discussing data from the Federal Housing Finance Agency that suggest that the greatest increase in house prices in large metropolitan areas tend to be found in urban rather than suburban areas. Wonkblog published a series of maps illus...

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Reproducing the Washington Post housing price maps with R and ggplot2

29.06.2016

This week, Emily Badger and Darla Cameron at The Washington Post’s Wonkblog published an article (linked here) discussing data from the Federal Housing Finance Agency that suggest that the greatest increase in house prices in large metropolitan areas tend to be found in urban rather than suburban areas. Wonkblog published a series of maps illus...

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