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title: "An R Exercise in Data Collection, Cleaning, and Merging U.S. Census Data"
author: "Sean Conner"
date: "2019-07-22T21:23:08Z"
tags: [Tutorial, Social Science]
link: "https://bookdown.org/scconner7/r_census_data_cleaning_tutorial/"
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An R Exercise in Data Collection, Cleaning, and Merging U.S. Census Data [...] This document is intended as a follow-along tutorial for learning how to perform data collection and cleaning with R. To the best of my ability, I have tried to make this illustrative of real data and real tasks that anyone from a social science student to a county government official might actually encounter. To that end, I am building upon actual projects that I have worked on as a graduate research assistant to convey this information. For context, previously, I conducted a Mississippi case study of how indoor ...
