Tutorials and Guides

Automating data pulls from the US Census API

How to use R to automate data pulls from the US Census API.

Census Data Project (Parts 1-4)

Four part series on how to build a model, which can predict whether the income of a random adult American citizen is less or greater than $50000 a year based on given features, such as age, education, occupation, gender, race, etc.

Finding Stories in Census Data

Emily Alpert Reyes on how to find promising needles in Census haystacks.

A tutorial for the Census Data API

Quick start for the Census data API.

Using Census Data API with R

Downloading to presenting in R by utilizing the APIs provided by the Census Bureau.

Visualizing census data

Join Joseph Lowery for an in-depth discussion in this video Visualizing census data, part of Learning Cloud Service APIs.