Ken Blake
drkblake.bsky.social
Ken Blake
@drkblake.bsky.social
Journalism prof. Data nerd.
And here's Part 4 of my series on using R to analyze fair market rent data from HUD. This final installment in the series shows how to add ZIP-code-level estimated rental unit and total housing unit counts pulled from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey API. rpubs.com/drkblake/FMR4
January 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Part 3 of the R tutorial series I'm developing for a new course. This one focuses on making maps out of fair market rent data from HUD. See: rpubs.com/drkblake/FMR3
January 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Part 2 of my series introducing students to R using smal-area fair market rent data. rpubs.com/drkblake/FMR2
December 16, 2024 at 11:49 PM
AP-NORC poll finds low awareness of, and low support for, Trump’s cabinet nominees.
What Americans think about Hegseth, Gabbard and key Trump Cabinet picks AP-NORC poll
As several of President-elect Donald Trump’s choices for high-level positions in his administration face scrutiny on Capitol Hill, a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Resea...
apnews.com
December 13, 2024 at 12:24 AM
I'm prepping for a spring semester course that will introduce journalism to R & thought working with small-area fair market rent data for local ZIP codes might be a good place to start. Here's the first in what will be a series of scripts I plan to use:

rpubs.com/drkblake/FMR1

More coming ...
RPubs - First look at R and Fair Market Rent
rpubs.com
December 11, 2024 at 9:51 PM