Announcing nationalparkscolors - Color palettes inspired by America’s National Parks
Introducing nationalparkscolors, an R package with 20 color palettes inspired by the landscapes, geology, and ecosystems of iconic US National Parks.
Beautiful Chord Diagrams with Flourish
Chord diagrams are one of the most effective ways to show pairwise relationships between entities. This post covers the theory, code-based approaches in R, Python, and JavaScript, and how to build them quickly using Flourish — illustrated with a real example from the Charlotte Regional Data Trust.
Embracing multilingualism in data science
Series: Reproducible Research Framework at the Charlotte Urban Institute
Why bilingual fluency in R and Python is becoming essential for community research teams
Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding: How It Works and Where We Use It
Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding (BISG) is a probabilistic method that estimates racial and ethnic group membership using last names and residential geography — a practical tool for working with administrative data that lacks race and ethnicity fields.
Using tidycensus to Analyze ACS PUMS Data
The American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) gives you individual-level Census records for custom cross-tabulations and analysis. This tutorial walks through using the tidycensus package to pull and analyze PUMS data for Mecklenburg County, NC.
Towards reproducible data science for community and policy research - An experiential roadmap
On developing a reproducible data science framework and practice at the Charlotte Urban Insitute
Charlotte Regional Data Trust - Technical Operations Manual
On how we developed the technical operations manual at the Charlotte Regional Data Trust
Make your code purr - A short intro to iterating using PURRR in R
breeze through loops using the power of purrr
Sahyadri - Yet another Rstudio Dark theme
Releasing the v1.0 of a new RStudio theme
Comparison Slider for figures and images with RICV
Now sliders can be added to make impactful image comparisons
India Ink
IndiaInk is an R package project that gives ggplot color themes inspired by the national parks and landmarks of India