US_census: US census data at the county level

In clauswilke/dviz.supp: Supporting materials for Claus Wilke's data visualization book

Description

Data for 3143 counties in the United States. This dataset is equivalent to countyComplete from the openintro package.

Usage

US_census

Format

An object of class data.frame with 3143 rows and 53 columns.

See Also

US_regions

Examples

library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)

data <- left_join(US_census, US_regions) %>%
 group_by(region, division, state) %>%
 summarize(pop2000 = sum(pop2000, na.rm = TRUE),
           pop2010 = sum(pop2010, na.rm = TRUE),
           popgrowth = (pop2010-pop2000)/pop2000,
           area = sum(area)) %>%
 arrange(popgrowth) %>%
 ungroup() %>%
 mutate(state = factor(state, levels = state),
        region = factor(region, levels = c("West", "South", "Midwest", "Northeast")))


ggplot(data, aes(x = state, y = popgrowth, fill = region)) + geom_col() + coord_flip()

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