urbanindex

incorrectly calculating the 538 urbanization index for each census tract

inspiration

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1200498385125433344

Installation

You can install urbanindex from github with:

install.packages("edavidaja/urbanindex")

if that doesn’t work–have you met {renv}?

Example

library(urbanindex)
head(pop_within_5_mi)
#>         GEOID pop_within_five population
#> 1 01001020100           58291       1923
#> 2 01001020200           58555       2028
#> 3 01001020300           64819       3476
#> 4 01001020400           68921       3831
#> 5 01001020500           71947       9883
#> 6 01001020600           50997       3705

garden of forking paths

a differently wrong approach uses st_is_within_distance to identify tract centroids within five miles of each other, available on the centroid-self-join branch