In slu-openGIS/eads: Canned and Custom Data Tables for the St. Louis Region

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eads

The goal of eads is to provide local data users access to both canned and custom data tables at a variety of Census geographies and spatial extents. This is a joint project of the SLU openGIS effort and the St. Louis Regional Data Alliance.

Installation

The development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("slu-openGIS/eads")

Regional Census Data

The stl_get_census() function provides access to both the American Community Survey (from 2010 onwards) and the 1990, 2000, and 2010 Decennial Census products from the U.S. Census Bureau. For example, we can obtain counts of the number of vacant housing units for the entire metro St. Louis area:

> stl_get_census(region = "full metro", level = "county", 
+                variable = "H005001", year = 2010, 
+                product = "census")
Getting data from the 2010 decennial Census
# A tibble: 16 x 3
   GEOID NAME                         H005001
   <chr> <chr>                          <dbl>
 1 17013 Calhoun County, Illinois         750
 2 17027 Clinton County, Illinois        1306
 3 17061 Greene County, Illinois          819
 4 17083 Jersey County, Illinois         1020
 5 17117 Macoupin County, Illinois       2203
 6 17119 Madison County, Illinois        9012
 7 17133 Monroe County, Illinois          803
 8 17157 Randolph County, Illinois       1393
 9 17163 St. Clair County, Illinois     11204
10 29071 Franklin County, Missouri       4249
11 29099 Jefferson County, Missouri      5926
12 29113 Lincoln County, Missouri        2105
13 29183 St. Charles County, Missouri    6742
14 29189 St. Louis County, Missouri     33267
15 29219 Warren County, Missouri         2346
16 29510 St. Louis city, Missouri       33945

Alternatively, we can get the same counts, but just for East-West Gateway counties in 2000:

> stl_get_census(region = "ew gateway", level = "county", 
+                variable = "H005001", year = 2000, 
+                product = "census")
Getting data from the 2000 decennial Census
# A tibble: 8 x 3
  GEOID NAME               H005001
  <chr> <chr>                <dbl>
1 17119 Madison County        6989
2 17133 Monroe County          474
3 17163 St. Clair County      7636
4 29071 Franklin County       3350
5 29099 Jefferson County      4087
6 29183 St. Charles County    3851
7 29189 St. Louis County     19437
8 29510 St. Louis city       29278

What's in a Name?

eads is a reference to the Eads Bridge, the first bridge erected across the Mississippi River in St. Louis and an iconic landmark in the region. Like its namesake, eads provides a link between disparate corners of the region, ensuring we can paint a unified portrait with data instead of steel.