Check out the 'acs' package for R — it seems to talk to summary tables but
not to microdata, but could be just right for you.
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/acs/
https://github.com/trulia/choroplethr


On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 12:27 PM, veeps <notifications@github.com> wrote:

> In _posts/2014-02-12-Veeps-IterationPlan1.md:
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> > +---
> > +layout: post
> > +title: Iteration Plan 1 - Veeps
> > +description: First iteration plan for project
> > +tags: assignments
> > +---
> > +
> > +Overall Goal Objectives: Create D3 visualizations on San Francisco's housing data for my thesis
> > +1. Visualize the increasing trend in rent over the past 3-5 years and see how that compares to the increasing salaries of tech workers
> > +2. Pull data on eviction rates in SF and compare the influx of "techies" moving into the city vs. people getting kicked out of their homes
> > +
> > +Spring plan:
> > +1. Find data on housing information from City and council of San Francisco budget & Legislative Analyst
> > +2. See if I can pull the original data from this article so I can play with data on Ellis Act evictions: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-evictions-surge-report-finds-4955020.php#photo-5417365
>
> The US Census just announced that they are providing API access to some
> data sets. I'm going to take a look to see what I can use from them as well.
> … <#14440e3ccd235acd_>
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Mike <notifications@github.com> wrote:
> In _posts/2014-02-12-Veeps-IterationPlan1.md: > @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ > +--- >
> +layout: post > +title: Iteration Plan 1 - Veeps > +description: First
> iteration plan for project > +tags: assignments > +--- > + > +Overall Goal
> Objectives: Create D3 visualizations on San Francisco's housing data for my
> thesis > +1. Visualize the increasing trend in rent over the past 3-5 years
> and see how that compares to the increasing salaries of tech workers > +2.
> Pull data on eviction rates in SF and compare the influx of "techies"
> moving into the city vs. people getting kicked out of their homes > + >
> +Spring plan: > +1. Find data on housing information from City and council
> of San Francisco budget & Legislative Analyst > +2. See if I can pull the
> original data from this article so I can play with data on Ellis Act
> evictions:
> http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-evictions-surge-report-finds-4955020.php#photo-5417365Yeah, I've seen this before too. Would be worth considering other sources
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