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

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)

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:

Creative Commons License
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.