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Recent posts

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Cheatsheet Single page cheatsheet for the macOS command line interface (CLI) provided by Terminal.app, iTerm.app and others
Do it yourself bullseye maps A Julia script to convert create a webpage of a Leaflet map centered on a chosen city.
How to plot an age pyramid A Julia script to convert Census age-by-sex tables to a pyramid plot
us_states_with_inset.jl Preparing maps of the United States with Alaska and Hawaii insets in Julia, using the Makie package.
StateBins.jl: a Julia package to display a cartogram of US States as equally sized squares This utility ports parts of the statebins package in R by Bob Rudis. Related documentation at Statebins documentation
us_states_with_inset.jl Preparing maps of the United States with Alaska and Hawaii insets in Julia, using the Makie package.
CensusACS.jl: a Julia package to download U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey tables by reference number. This utility ports parts of the tidycensus package in R by Kyle Walker. Related documentation at CensusACS.jl documentation
ColorVintner.jl: a Julia package to display ColorBrewer palettes via REPL This utility previews all the sequential, diverging and qualitative palettes. Related documentation at ColorVintner.jl documentation
America, Refounded: A Partition of an Unstable Polity One way to divvy up the American Pie
OLSPlots.jl: a Julia package to produce ordinary least square regression diagnostic plots This emulates the plot() function applied to lm() models in R.Related documentation at OLSPlots documentation
RSetup.jl: a Julia package to load R libraries for use with RCall.jl Julia has the basic statistical tools, but nothing compared to the wealth of the R Programming Language. Making the R tools available through RCall is straightforward but namespace management can be tricky. RSetup.jl is meant to ease the pain. Related documentation at RSetup documentation
GeoIDs.jl: a Julia package to manage sets of county-level Census geoid identifiers. Helps with arranging and rearranging selections of tens or hundreds of counties. Related documentation at GeoIDs documentation
Breakers.jl: a Julia package to classify a continuous numeric vector into bins. Allows thematic mapping with discrete color schemes. Related documentation at Breakers documentation