Data & Democracy Workshop 2 - Voter Turnout Geospatial Analysis/Viz in R

Welcome to the Data & Democracy Workshop 2 - Voter Turnout Geospatial Analysis/Viz in R! Join us online on Sat Aug 10 2024 at 14:00:00 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) for an exciting session on using R for analyzing and visualizing voter turnout data. Dive into the world of geospatial analysis and learn how to create stunning visualizations to better understand voter behavior. Don't miss out on this opportunity to enhance your data skills and contribute to a more informed democracy!

Level: Beginner

WorkshopDescription

This workshop will teach participants how to visualize and analyze patterns in voter participation using the open-source programming language R. Demos and hands-on exercises will draw upon real election and census data and use R packages, including the tidyverse, tidycensus, and sf. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to import election and census data in R, summarize voter characteristics relative to the population baseline, and visualize the results as cross-tabulations, charts, maps, and simple descriptive stats.

Instructor: Andy Lyons

Bio: Andy Lyons works with the University of California as Program Coordinator for the Informatics and GIS Statewide Program within the Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources. In this role, he supports a wide range of GIS and data science projects in agriculture, natural resources, climate change adaptation, and decision support tools. He earned his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in Environmental Science Policy and Management and has taught classes at UC Berkeley, Stanford, and UC Davis, including spatial analysis with open-source software, GIS, drone photogrammetry, environmental problem solving, population modeling, cryptography, African studies, social justice, and sustainability. Outside of work, Andy can often be found hiking around the hills of the Bay area.

Zoom link will be sent with the registeration reciept.

For any inquiries reach to the SAVI/PIT-UN Data & Democracy Workshop manager [email protected]

Host or Publisher Spatial Analytics and Visualization center at San Jose State University