Making Data Tell Stories: Visualization for Public Policy
How effective data visualization can transform complex policy issues into actionable insights for decision-makers and the public
Read full articleMatching Articles
A Spatial Analysis of New Jersey's Medical Cannabis Dispensary Accessibility
An isochrone-based GIS analysis revealing that over 756,000 New Jerseyans in 110 municipalities face 30+ minute drives to the nearest medical cannabis dispensary.
Read full article New Jersey's official geocoding API now has a client for R
Using New Jersey's official state geocoding service just got easier! This post introduces njgeo, a new R package that simplifies working with New Jersey-specific spatial datasets.
Read full article What Social Media Data Tells Us About the 2021 New Jersey Governor's Race
A sentiment analysis of tweets about the Murphy-Ciattarelli gubernatorial race reveals key differences in campaign rhetoric, word choice, and online engagement.
Read full article Automating web scraping with GitHub Actions and R
GitHub Actions is a powerful tool for automating workflows. This post presents an example of using GitHub Actions to automatically run a web scraper in R and commit the results to a repository.
Read full article
Announcing zipcodeR: A new R package for ZIP code analysis
Introducing zipcodeR, an R package that makes it easy to work with ZIP code-level data in spatial analysis and demographics research
Read full article njtr1: An R Package to Download & Analyze New Jersey Car Crash Data
Introducing njtr1, an R package that automates the acquisition and cleaning of motor vehicle crash data published by the New Jersey Department of Transportation.
Read full article A Critique of New Jersey's COVID-19 Data Transparency
An analysis of how New Jersey compares to neighboring states in the granularity, format and accessibility of raw COVID-19 data, concluding that the state fell short in open data practices during the pandemic.
Read full article What's New in zipcodeR v0.2?
A review of the new features in zipcodeR v0.2, including congressional district lookups, FIPS code searches, and community-contributed improvements.
Read full article Sentiment Analysis of Governor Murphy's Executive Orders
Using natural language processing to analyze the sentiment and emotional content of New Jersey Governor Murphy's executive orders during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read full article Mapping Philadelphia's Bike Sharing Data
A data visualization project using Python, GeoPandas, and matplotlib to create an animated GIF showing Indego bike sharing usage patterns across Philadelphia from 2015-2019.
Read full articleBrowse by Topic
#3d-printing
#amateur-radio
#automation
#best-practices
#civic-tech
#communication
#community
#covid-19
#data-science
#data-visualization
#demographics
#digital-transformation
#dmr
#electronics
#free-speech
#gis
#github
#government
#hardware
#healthcare
#journalism
#media
#modernization
#new-jersey
#nlp
#open-data
#open-source
#opra
#policy
#politics
#public-health
#public-policy
#public-records
#python
#r
#react
#recognition
#sentiment-analysis
#seo
#technology
#transparency
#transportation
#tutorial
#typescript
#web-development
#web-scraping
#wordpress
Stay Updated
Subscribe to the RSS feed to get notified when new articles are published.
Subscribe via RSS