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Conor Tompkins
Jan 28, 2021 5 min read
House Price Estimator Dashboard

House Price Estimator Dashboard

Use this interactive dashboard to model house prices in Allegheny County, PA
Conor Tompkins
Aug 23, 2020 1 min read R, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County
Pittsburgh City Boundary Model Leaflet Map

Pittsburgh City Boundary Model Leaflet Map

View this classification model that distinguishes between census tracts that are inside or outside the City of Pittsburgh
Conor Tompkins
Aug 14, 2020 10 min read R, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County
Modeling the Pittsburgh City Boundary

Modeling the Pittsburgh City Boundary

In this post I create a model that differentiates census tracts that are inside and outside the city limits of Pittsburgh

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Census Explorer This app uses Census and other spatial data to explore demographic and economic trends at the tract level. The user can compare various metrics across time and space.
Last updated on Aug 28, 2022

Recent Posts

Forecasting potholes with exogenous variables

Intro In this post I will extend the modelling approach from the previous post with exogenous variables (variables not directly about the quantity being measured in the time series). These time series models will take into account the time series dynamics of the historical data and any relationship between pothole reports and weather.
Last updated on Oct 31, 2023 15 min read
Forecasting potholes with exogenous variables

Forecasting Pittsburgh Potholes with {fable}

Intro Potholes are the bane of Pittsburgh drivers’ existence. You can either weave around the minefield of holes in the road (some of alarming size) or risk damage to your vehicle.
Last updated on Oct 28, 2023 11 min read
Forecasting Pittsburgh Potholes with {fable}

Suburbanization of Allegheny County

This March, researchers at the University of Georgia and Florida State University released the HHUUD10 dataset, which contains estimates of the number of housing units for decennial census years 1940-2010 and 2019.
Conor Tompkins
Last updated on Apr 18, 2022 11 min read
Suburbanization of Allegheny County

Making a Venn diagram in Shiny

Introduction This blog post is about making Venn diagrams work in Shiny, and the issues I ran into with shiny::nearPoints(). I show how this impacted my initial approach, and discuss the underlying issue.
Last updated on Mar 12, 2022 6 min read
Making a Venn diagram in Shiny

Effect of Geographic Resolution on ebirdst Abundance

While exploring some of the citizen science bird observation data available through ebirdst, I was confused by how to understand the calculation of ebirdst’s abundance metric. The ebirdst documentation (?
Conor Tompkins
Nov 23, 2021 6 min read R, eBird
Effect of Geographic Resolution on ebirdst Abundance
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Conor Tompkins

Conor Tompkins

Biography

I am a data scientist in the Pittsburgh area with an interest in data visualization, statistical programming, and civic data.

Interests

  • Data visualization
  • Statistical programming
  • Civic data

Education

  • MA Public and International Affairs, 2013

    University of Pittsburgh GSPIA

  • BA Political Science, International Relations, 2011

    Duquesne University

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