PUMS

Example code and data for "Practical Data Science with R, 2nd Edition" by Nina Zumel and John Mount, Manning 2019.

• The support site: GitHub WinVector/PDSwR2

The code and data in this directory supports examples from:

• Chapter 2: Loading data into R
• Chapter 7: Using Linear and Logistic Regression
• Chapter 9: Exploring Advanced Methods
• Appendix A: Working with R And Other Tools

This data is derived from the 2016 US Census American Community Survay (ACS) Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS)

• https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/acs-1year.2016.html
• https://www2.census.gov/acs2016_1yr/pums/

File in this directory

• README.md : this document
• ACS2016_PUMS_README.pdf : documentation from the census.
• PUMSDataDict16.txt : text data dictionary from the census.
• data_dict.csv : data dictionary converted to a tall table for use.
• download : directory with scripts for downloading, sampling, and re-coding the census data.
• PUMSsample.RDS : example sample of households (by census weight) and matching people records.
• PUMS1.Rmd : R-markdown example slice of census sample.
• PUMS1.md : markdown output of PUMS1.Rmd.
• psub.RDS : data result of PUMS1.Rmd.

License for additional documentation, notes, code, and example data:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

No guarantee, indemnification or claim of fitness is made regarding any of these items.

No claim of license on works of others or derived data.