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<p><span>Last year I announced a </span><span>collaboration with the Census Bureau</span><span> to help with their new online training platform. </span><span>This website, called “Census Academy”, is designed to help the public learn how to work with data that the Census Bureau publishes.</span></p>
<p>Census Academy recently had a soft launch, and there is already a lot of content on it. I’ve marked up an image of the homepage below to draw attention to three sections: Data Gems, Courses and “Join the Community”.</p>
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<h2><span><b>Data Gems</b></span></h2>
<p><span>Data Gems are short instructional videos created by experts at the Census Academy. </span></p>
<p><span>A recent Data Gem, for example, explained how ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (a geography published by the Census Bureau) are different than ZIP Codes (which are published by the Postal Service). </span>This is a question that I am frequently asked, and I found that the Data Gem gave a great answer!</p>
<h2><span><b>Courses</b></span></h2>
<p><span>My biggest contribution to Census Academy has been the creation of a course on visualizing data from the American Community Survey (ACS) in R. This course, which will be published soon, can be thought of as an in-depth extension of my existing course <a rel="nofollow" href="https://arilamstein.com/?feed-stats-url=aHR0cHM6Ly9hcmlsYW1zdGVpbi5jb20vY2Vuc3VzLW1hcHBpbmctY291cnNlLw%3D%3D&feed-stats-url-post-id=7256" target="_blank">Learn to Map Census Data in R</a>. </span><span>I will make an announcement here when the course becomes available!</span></p>
<h2><span><b>Join the Community</b></span></h2>
<p><span>Census Academy just started, and new training material is being added all the time. I think that any R programmer with an interest in demographic data can benefit from Census Academy!</span></p>
<p><span>To get notified when Census Academy adds new training material, click the “Join the Community” button on the Census Academy homepage. </span></p>
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