Publications by Ari Lamstein
Slides from my Talk at the CDC
Two weeks ago I had the honor of giving a talk about my open source work at the CDC. Last week I gave the talk again as an open-enrollment webinar. In case you missed that talk, you can view the slides here. You can also download the slides by entering your email below. Download the Slides and Code!DOWNLOAD Download the Slides and Code!DOWNLOAD ...
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Upcoming Talk: 2017 ACS Data Users Conference
My abstract was recently accepted for the 2017 ACS Data Users Conference, and on May 12 I will be giving a talk titled Mapping ACS Data in R with Choroplethr. I am looking forward to attending the conference! For those who don’t know, ACS stands for American Community Survey. If you have taken Learn to Map Census Data in R, or read my blog...
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How to Reach More People with your Next Data Science Talk
Speaking publicly about your data science projects is one of the best things you can do for your portfolio. Writing your presentation will help you refine what your project is, who it is for, and how it relates to other work in the area. Giving your presentation at a live, in-person event will make a large impact on the audience. That being sa...
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Live Presentation: Kyle Walker on the tigris Package
Kyle Walker Next Tuesday (April 4) at 9am PT I will be hosting a webinar with Kyle Walker about the tigris package in R. In addition to creating the Tigris package, Kyle is also a Professor of Geography at Texas Christian University. If you are interested in R, Mapping and US Census Geography then I encourage you to attend! What tigris Does When...
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Choroplethr v3.6.0 is now on CRAN
Choroplethr version 3.6.0 is now on CRAN. This version adds functionality for getting and mapping demographics of US Census Tracts. You can install it from the R console as follows: install.packages("choroplethr") packageVersion("choroplethr") [1] ‘3.6.0’ To use this functionality you will need an API key from the US Census Bureau. Yo...
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Choroplethr v3.6.0 is now on CRAN
Choroplethr version 3.6.0 is now on CRAN. This version adds functionality for getting and mapping demographics of US Census Tracts. You can install it from the R console as follows: install.packages("choroplethr") packageVersion("choroplethr") [1] ‘3.6.0’ To use this functionality you will need an API key from the US Census Bureau. Yo...
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Choroplethr v3.6.1 is now on CRAN
Choroplethr version 3.6.1 is now on CRAN. This version makes it easier to Calculate the percent change in demographic datasets Visualize that percent change on a map Bonus: Download the code in this post!Click Here As an example, the following map shows how the median age in US States changed between 2010 and 2015: In the above map, both the ...
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Choroplethr v3.6.1 is now on CRAN
Choroplethr version 3.6.1 is now on CRAN. This version makes it easier to Calculate the percent change in demographic datasets Visualize that percent change on a map Bonus: Download the code in this post!Click Here As an example, the following map shows how the median age in US States changed between 2010 and 2015: In the above map, both the ...
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Upcoming Talk on Monetizing R Packages
In early June I will be speaking at the San Francisco EARL Conference about my experience monetizing my own open source R packages. This is quite an exciting talk for me, as it will be the first time that I speak about this topic! If you will be at the conference, please contact me so we can arrange to meet. You can see the abstract for my talk b...
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Upcoming Talk on Monetizing R Packages
In early June I will be speaking at the San Francisco EARL Conference about my experience monetizing my own open source R packages. This is quite an exciting talk for me, as it will be the first time that I speak about this topic! If you will be at the conference, please contact me so we can arrange to meet. You can see the abstract for my talk ...
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