bearloga / 2010-us-census-shiny-app

Enables exploration of the 2010 US Census data from the UScensus2010* package(s) via a web interface created in R with Shiny.

2010 US Census Shiny App

By	Mikhail Y. Popov
email	[email protected]
web	http://www.mpopov.com
demo	live demonstration
related	Guide to Shiny Server on Amazon EC2

Enables exploration of the 2010 US Census data from the UScensus2010* package(s) via a web interface created in R with Shiny.

The data on the counties, tracts, block groups, blocks, and CDPs totals 4.7 GB, which will take a while to download. However, you only need to download county, tract, and block group data which is less than 500 mb. When you've downloaded the packages, run:

install.packages(c("maptools","maps"));
install.packages(c(
"UScensus2010county_1.00.tar.gz",
"UScensus2010tract_1.00.tar.gz",
"UScensus2010blkgrp_1.00.tar.gz",
# "UScensus2010cdp_1.00.tar.gz", # currently not needed
# "UScensus2010blk_1.00.tar.gz", # currently not needed
"UScensus2010_0.11.zip"
), repos = NULL, type = "source")

Assuming you've installed the shiny package and that shinyapp is a folder in your working directory, run:

shiny::runApp("shinyapp")

Still need to add the remaining census variables because Total Population and Population Density are not the most exciting to study. I'll be adding features over time. For example, I'm considering incorporating the Public Use Microdata Sample files from the American Community Survey (PUMS ACS)...eventually.

Cheers!

2010-us-census-shiny-app's Issues

2010-US-Census Shiny App: variables.dat

Hi Mikhail,
Really like what you created. It has much of what I need to get started on a project. One question: what is the content/format of the variables.dat file? I cannot seem to find any info on that. Do you have an example file I might use to learn from?

Hope to hear from you. Thanks!

Cliff