United States Population Study

This presentation describes my submission for the final project of the “Developing Data Products” course of the Data Science Specialization offered by Coursera.

Learn presentation and publication tools for data science.

• Shiny interactive web applications
• R Studio Presentor or Slidify for R-enabled presentations
• Github to manage and distribute source and compiled files
• Project analysis and subject were left to the student, but required non-trivial and dynamic content

I chose to analyze census data and visually answer such questions as:

• Which states have the largest and smallest populations?
• Over the last 5 years, which state populations have had the largest increases and decreases?

Otherwise, my goal was to keep the application as simple as possible.

• No numbers, only graphics (colored maps)
• No legends, as they are not required to answer the questions

United States Census Bureau

• Start here - http://www.census.gov/popest/data/national/totals/2015/
• NST-EST2015-alldata dataset was used
• PDF describes the schema
• CSV contains the data
• Only the annual population columns were used for this study