Love Data Week: Working with APIs and the U.S. Census in R

Description

As part of Love Data Week, Data Services is hosting a presentation on Working with APIs and the U.S. Census in R, presented by Reina Murray, geospatial data curator and applications administrator in Data Services.

Heard about Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), but don't know how to use them? Join Johns Hopkins Data Services in this one-hour presentation, as we cover a powerful tool for researchers to access and acquire data in R. This presentation will first introduce APIs and how to make API requests in R. The presentation will then demonstrate and go over several options for how to access data from the U.S. Census Bureau's various APIs. Prior experience and knowledge of R is recommended.

Love Data Week is an international celebration of data hosted by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). The purpose of Love Data Week is to raise awareness and build a community to engage on topics related to research data analysis, management, sharing, preservation, reuse, and library-based research data services.