R for the Rest of Us Podcast Episode 10: Kyle Walker

In this episode, I speak with Kyle Walker, Associate Professor of Geography and Director of the Center for Urban Studies at Texas Christian University. Kyle has developed several packages, but the one we talk about in this chat is called tidycensus. tidycensus allows R users to return Census and ACS data as tidyverse-ready data frames. Kyle had a rough start with R programming and he didn’t want anything to do with it for 3 years. What made him come back to R and become one of its renowned champions? We chat about that as well.

Resources Discussed

• Kyle’s new book: Analyzing US Census Data: Methods, Maps, and Models in R 

• The chapter in my book that this conversation led to: Access Up To Date Census Data with the tidycensus Package

Learn more about Kyle and his work at WALKER DATA. He’s also on Twitter (@kyle_e_walker)

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