Analyzing census data with R
Date: Friday, 14 October, 2022.
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Location: Hybrid; in person at room 1104 (11th floor) and online via zoom
Instructor: Dr. Tim Elrick, Faculty Lecturer in the Faculty of Science.
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Overview: In this workshop you will learn how to efficiently find and extract census data and its geographical boundaries in R for the Canadian, the US and EU censuses.
At the end of this workshop, you will be able to
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý · find and extract data efficiently from the Canadian census
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý · find and extract data efficiently from the US census
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý · find and extract data efficiently from the Eurostat census
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý · extract geographic boundary files, combine them with census data and display them on a map
Prerequisites:
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý · Introductory knowledge of R, e.g. from Â鶹AV's R summer camp, or from our Introduction to programming with R workshop.
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