Month: February 2022
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Digital Growth Machine Sessions at the AAG
Feeding the Digital Growth Machine: Data, the city, and the urban process under digital capitalism Sponsored by the Digital Geography Specialty Group and the Urban Geography Specialty Group Organizers: Joe Gallagher (UMBC), Alicia Sabatino (UMBC), Evan Thomas (UMBC), Dillon Mahmoudi (UMBC), and John G Stehlin (UNCG) The growth machine has proven a durable concept for thinking about the capture of urban governance/policymaking by a class…
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Downloading National Block Group and Tract data using tidycensus
Getting national census data, with related geometry data to analyze, is more difficult than it should be. The various tools that have been released by Census Bureau are geared toward “advanced casual users” and not those doing spatial analysis. Older tools, like Data Ferrett, have been phased out while newer tools, like data.census.gov, are still…