Data Dictionary to Meta Data III is the third and final blog devoted to demonstrating the automation of meta data creation for the American Community Survey 2012-2016 household data set, using a published data dictionary. DDMDI was a teaser to show how Python could be used to generate R statements that could in turn be cut/pasted/applied in an R Jupyter notebook to…

My blog last week articulated a first shot at automating the creation of meta data…

My last DSC blog left me a bit disappointed. While the loads of the beefy household and population files for the American Community Survey worked well, the data, just about entirely integer, represents categorical attributes whose meta info is not…

I met up with an old grad school friend a few weeks back. He's an accomplished professor of demography, basically the statistical study of populations, particularly surrounding births, deaths, and fertility. Where he once traveled extensively to conduct…