R Consortium September 2024 newsletter: share updates of your working group

[Crosita]

Hi @arilamstein  and team, I am Coline Zeballos, R Strategy Lead at Roche and member of the R Consortium's Marketing committee. I am currently collecting working group updates for the RC's quarterly newsletter which will be published at the end of September 2024. Would you like to share a couple of updates for your WG? If so, please do so until Sept 16th. Thank you! Coline, on behalf of the R Consortium Marketing Committee

[Crosita]

Hi all, kind reminder to provide an update of the Census working group by Monday 16th. The update will be shared in the R Consortium newsletter at the end of September. Don't miss the chance to let people know what you are up to!

[Crosita]

I was told that Jessica @JessMK is this working group's lead. This is the newsletter update that I plan on publishing in the newsletter, it is based on your GH README and updates provided by Ari. Could you confirm you agree to publish this content by end of today please? if not it will be published as such:

"The Census working group released a second version of their guide. Key updates include:

• revamped the section on Data Dissemination to remove reference to the (now deprecated) American Fact Finder and instead point people to the (new) data.census.gov. A new section on working with the API that was not present before.
• updated the list of R packages listed in the guide to reflect not just new download stats but also new packages published since the initial version.
• revamped the list of datasets Census provides, and links to learn more about them.

The U.S. Census Bureau is the premier source of data about America's people, places and economy. This makes the Bureau a natural source of information for data analysts. R programmers who start working with Census Data, however, often run into two problems:

1. Understanding what data the Census Bureau publishes.
2. Understanding what packages on CRAN are available to help with their project. This document aims to help R programmers who are confronted with these problems. Check out the full guide here: https://github.com/RConsortium/censusguide"

[JessMK]

Good afternoon! Sorry for the delay in response. This looks good, I would add only a few details to the key updates list:

• revamped the section on Data Dissemination to remove reference to the (now deprecated) American Fact Finder and instead point people to the (new)data.census.gov. New to working with the Census API? Check out the tutorials and resources linked in the API section to learn more and get started.
• updated the list of R packages listed in the guide to reflect not just new download stats but also new packages published since the initial version.
• expanded the list of programs and datasets Census provides, including links to learn more about them.

You could also include something about feedback being welcome. We are still working on adding tutorials and other package/training related resources to the guide, so readers have more to look forward to with the next update.

Let me know if you have any further questions, thank you!