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Quality of geocoding in R with censusxy?
I am trying to geocode addresses using the package "censusxy." An example of how I do this is:
address<-tibble(street="295 Cow Hill Road", city="Mystic", state="...
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Adding Census Tract to a dataframe based on Latitude and Longitude
I have a large dataset, with two of the following columns:
Latitude Longitude
39.18207 -76.53715
39.18207 -76.53715
39.17810 -76.52680
39.17810 -76.52680
39.17810 ...
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Census API Error Message: ACS Subject Tables for Zip Codes (ambiguous geography)
Have you seen the following error:
Getting data from the 2014-2018 5-year ACS
Using the ACS Subject Tables
Error: Your API call has errors. The API message returned is error: ambiguous geography &...
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Scraping data from data.census.gov county profiles
I'm trying to write a program using bs4 (or another method) that can scrape the data from the title pages of specific counties, like this one: https://data.census.gov/profile/Grant_County,_New_Mexico?...
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Averaging Census Tracts and their Demographics into Thiessen Polygons (ArcGIS, R)
I am creating catchment zones based on points. I want to know the demographics of the catchment zones. Right now I have two shape files - one with the Census tracts and all of the demographic data and ...
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Census API returning a rate_sleep() error
I am trying to request all the census tracts for the US using the census API
Here is my API request:
cenus_tracts <- get_acs(
geography = "tract",
variables = variables,
geometry = ...
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Error in gzfile(file, "wb") and cannot open compressed file R code Error
I use the CensusMapper database for work. I have been using the database for around four/five months. However, recently, once I started to extract data by R code, I am facing the error code below.
I ...
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Is there any dataset or free API available to convert or find Congressional Districts from zipcode
Is there any dataset or free API available to convert or find Congressional Districts from zipcode
I need to find which Congressional Districts a pincode/zipcode belongs to or i need a dataset that ...
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Substr command in SAS not working how it's supposed to
I have a variable called GEOID10 in my SAS table which is made up of 10-11 digits. The first 4-5 digits are the State and County FIPS codes and and the last 6 digits are the Census Tract. I want to ...
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What are Benchmarking Best Practices for US Census Data
I’m working with a dataset that crosses 2020 with data from 2015-2022. What is the best practice for geocoding within a dataset that spans two census' and multiple ACS years.
Should I be benchmarking ...
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Fail to get the exact female percentage from tidycensus
I use tidycensus to collect demographic data but it seems something wrong since I got 0 female percentage for the zipcode 39309, 87040 and 78712. I also have the same problem, getting some zero values ...
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How to download Census Land Area Data by County
I am looking to download land area (e.g. square meters) data for U.S. counties from the U.S. Census Bureau. I can't seem to find this data on the census website. Has anyone been able to find this ...
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States wise Demographics data API for Unites States with year range
I am working on a dashboard that consists of data for the United States with a trend graph ....Do you know any source or API which provides data with year range?
Population
Trend Graph
Summary stats
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County Dissimilarity Indices using R package "Segregation"
When I use the following code, the estimate (dissimilarity, D) is the same for all Counties (0.648). I'm wondering if it has to do with lack of geometry information, since I created the County_FIPS ...
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Extract the baseline and focal length using KITTI 2015 stereo dataset
I am new to image processing and I need to use the KITTI 2015 stereo images for performing a depth estimation using Census transform and hamming distance. For this I to need to find out how to extract ...
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