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<p>Today I’d like to draw attention to a workshop that Jeffrey Meisel gave at the Open Data Science Conference East (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.arilamstein.com/?feed-stats-url=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cub2RzYy5jb20vYm9zdG9u&feed-stats-url-post-id=2541">ODSC East</a>) in Boston last weekend. Jeff is the Chief Marketing Officer of the US Census Bureau, and for a few months we’ve been talking about how to improve communication between the Census Bureau and the R community.</p>
<p>You can see the material from Jeff’s workshop <a target="_blank" href="http://www.arilamstein.com/?feed-stats-url=aHR0cHM6Ly9naXRodWIuY29tL2ptZWlzZWwvQ2Vuc3VzLURhdGEtU2NpZW5jZS1Xb3Jrc2hvcC93aWtp&feed-stats-url-post-id=2541">here</a>. The workshop has three exercises: integrating census data with CartoDB, R and Python.</p>
<h3>Why is this Important?</h3>
<p>Over the last few years I’ve come to realize two things:</p>
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<li>The Census Bureau has a ton of interesting data</li>
<li>It’s hard to figure it all out on your own</li>
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<p>For example, my free course <a target="_blank" href="http://www.arilamstein.com/?feed-stats-url=aHR0cDovL2FyaWxhbXN0ZWluLmNvbS9mcmVlLWNvdXJzZQ%3D%3D&feed-stats-url-post-id=2541">Learn to Map Census Data</a> gives a good introduction to with census data in R. But it only scratches the surface of the data. I would require additional training to create a course on more complex uses of the data.</p>
<p>The fact that Jeff took the time to run a workshop at ODSC speaks volumes about his commitment to helping people make good use of this data.</p>
<h3>Want to Help?</h3>
<p>Before writing this I asked Jeff how other R developers could help make better use of Census data. Here is his answer</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Invitation to join Census API Beta Testers Group</strong></p>
<p>The Census Bureau is looking for beta testers to help improve their APIs, CitySDK, and soon to be released features for R and Python users.  If anyone wants to join our beta program, please send an email to Jeff Meisel, Chief Marketing Officer, at <a target="_blank" href="mailto:jeffrey.meisel@census.gov">jeffrey.meisel@census.gov</a> and he will provide more details.</p>
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<p>You can also raise awareness of this opportunity by tweeting the following:</p>
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