College Scorecard data access

[mbjones]

An R package that provides easy access to the data behind the College Scorecard, which was recently released by the government.

• What will the package do?
  • Provide access to data on college costs, demographics, and salaries for graduates
• Relevant links (For e.g. API docs, related software)
  • API docs: https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/
• Are there other related software?
  • Web presentation of data from government: https://collegescorecard.ed.gov
• What is the target audience
  • R users with an interest in education, and education outcomes
• Do you need help with development or are just suggesting the idea?
  • Just suggesting the idea; sorry, I don't have the cycles myself, but maybe someone would be interested
• what are some potential use cases?
  • Summarize trends across colleges (the government site only provides college-by-college stats)
  • Use college cost data for research, especially on relationship of educational outcomes
  • Build shiny apps to help explore the data

[Ironholds]

Looks cool!

[Ironholds]

Now going to start working on under the name "academiar"

[sckott]

@Ironholds did you start this, can't find it on github

[Ironholds]

I started but became overwhelmed and gave up :(. Sorry I didn't update here!

[sckott]

no worries

[Famguy]

@sckott Is this being done by anybody? I would like to volunteer for this in case nobody's working on it.

[sckott]

Nobody is working on it that I know of

[sckott]

@Famguy did you start working on this?

[Famguy]

@sckott Thanks for reminding me. Yes, I did start it but I got busy with some other things and couldn't finish it. I'll get back to working on it.

In the meanwhile, I made another package which I want to submit to rOpenSci. Could you tell me what's the procedure to do it?

[sckott]

You can submit to our onboarding repo by opening a new issue https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/issues/new

[juliasilge]

I was just looking at the College Scorecard data, and it appears there is an R package for accessing it by @btskinner: https://github.com/btskinner/rscorecard Already on CRAN as well: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rscorecard/index.html

[btskinner]

Hi everyone. I put together the rscorecard package that @juliasilge mentioned. Happy to answer any questions and/or take suggestions for improvements.

[maelle]

Thank you!

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