NNIP Tech & Data Presentations

This webinar explored the technology used by NNIP partners for data collection, processing and sharing.

• Elizabeth Burton from Urban Institute/NNIPHQ presented the results from the NNIP technology survey.
• Kailas Venkitasubramanian presented on UNC Charlotte’s technical operations manual, and
• Cristina Martinez from CI:Now’s (San Antonio) presented on Census API via R Tidycensus for downloading ACS and PUMS data

Extra Links

• NNIP Lessons on Data Management Practices
• NNIP's Guide to Data Governance and Security
• Resources for learning R shared by partners(suggest others!)
• Tip: Use map_dfr or purr to pull data for multiple states (instead of separate data frames
• Tip: Python pums data option
• Tip: Use the labelled package to manipulate metadata as variable labels, value labels and define missing values
• Tip: Intro to Census Microdata
• TidyCensus PUMS