tidycensus [wrangle]

(Builds on: Manipulation basics)
(Leads to: Census Bureau APIs)

The American Community Survey (ACS) and decennial census are rich, reliable sources of information on the U.S. population. In this reading, you’ll learn how to use the tidycensus package to easily access ACS and census data from R.

Readings

• What is an API? [wrangle-12.1]

• Census Bureau basics [wrangle-13.1]

• tidycensus [wrangle-13.2]