Online registration (for in-person, please fill in this form instead)
Date: Friday, 14 October, 2022.
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Location: online via Zoom (we will send a link to participants 48h in advance).
Instructor: Dr. Tim Elrick, Faculty Lecturer in the Faculty of Science.
Overview: In this workshop you will learn how to efficiently find and extract census data and its geographical boundaries in R for the Canadian, the US and EU censuses.
At the end of this workshop, you will be able to
· find and extract data efficiently from the Canadian census
· find and extract data efficiently from the US census
· find and extract data efficiently from the Eurostat census
· extract geographic boundary files, combine them with census data and display them on a map.
Prerequisites:
· Introductory knowledge of R, e.g. from McGill R summer camp, or from our Introduction to programming with R workshop.
· Install R and RStudio on your computer. You can find installation instructions here. Please contact us (cdsi.science at mcgill.ca) if you are having trouble with installation.
