Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

feat: Centers of Population #186

Open
ryanzomorrodi opened this issue Jul 2, 2024 · 0 comments
Open

feat: Centers of Population #186

ryanzomorrodi opened this issue Jul 2, 2024 · 0 comments

Comments

@ryanzomorrodi
Copy link

ryanzomorrodi commented Jul 2, 2024

It would be nice to have Census Centers of Population integrated within this tigris. Since they exist at many different geographies, it could be an option on nation, states, counties, tracts, and block_groups or its own function with a geography argument like in tidycensus.

To add on to this, there could be a population weighted centroid function similar to spatialEco's wt.centroid, but implementing the Census methodology for calculating mean population weighted centroids for using longLat geometries. This function would perhaps be better housed within tidycensus because it would rely on population data from the census, but these ideas come from the same vain, so I wanted get thoughts first.

Census methodology for mean population weighted centroid:
image

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
None yet
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

1 participant