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Kyle Walker

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Fort Worth, Texas

I'm Kyle Walker, an R developer working on packages to help improve your workflows with US Census Bureau and spatial data. I am actively developing the following packages:

  • tidycensus, which helps R users get demographic & spatial data from the US Census Bureau ready-to-go for use in their analyses;
  • tigris, which downloads US Census Bureau spatial data and loads it directly into R as simple features objects;
  • mapboxapi, an R interface to Mapbox web services. Use the package to optimize routes, draw isochrones, read and write vector tiles, use custom Mapbox maps in Leaflet projects, and more;
  • crsuggest, which gives R users projected coordinate system suggestions for their spatial datasets.

Please consider supporting this development work if you've found these packages useful; I commonly develop and maintain them in my spare time.

@walkerke

50 sponsors would go a long way toward allowing me to set aside dedicated time each month for package maintenance and implementation of new features!

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Featured work

  1. walkerke/tidycensus

    Load US Census boundary and attribute data as 'tidyverse' and 'sf'-ready data frames in R

  2. walkerke/tigris

    Download and use Census TIGER/Line shapefiles in R

  3. walkerke/crsuggest

    Get appropriate CRS suggestions for your spatial data in R

  4. walkerke/mapboxapi

    R interface to Mapbox web services

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