Unveiling Spatial Demographics using Bounding Boxes and Census Tracts in R

Now that we have all race variables, we can begin collecting the relevant census data. When calling census data, we need to consider how granular we want to be. We could call zip codes, however, these might be too broad. We could also look at census tracts. Census tracts are subdivisions of a county that have about 4,000 inhabitants. Another, more specific geographic feature that we could call are census blocks. Census Blocks are the smallest units the census uses to tabulate data. For our example, we are going to use tracts. <a href="https://medium.com/@eappelson/unveiling-spatial-demographics-using-bounding-boxes-and-census-tracts-in-r-2d5ce08698b4">Website</a>