While spending February buried under snow here in Providence, I took the opportunity to update several of the data products we create here at GeoData@SciLi. I’ll provide a summary of what we’re working on in this post. The heading for each project links to its GitHub repo, where you can access the...
I visit courses to guest lecture on census data every semester, and one of the primary topics is immigrant or ethnic communities in the US. There are many different variables in the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) that can be used to study different groups: Race, Hispanic or Latino...
Just when we thought the US government couldn’t possibly become more dysfunctional, it shut down completely on Sept 30, 2025. Government websites are not being updated, and many have gone offline. I’ve had trouble accessing data.census.gov; access has been intermittent, and sometimes it has worked...