{"id":25615,"date":"2024-02-08T18:27:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T17:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/beginner-question-having-troubles-obtaining-population-data-by-state\/"},"modified":"2024-02-08T18:27:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T17:27:20","slug":"beginner-question-having-troubles-obtaining-population-data-by-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/beginner-question-having-troubles-obtaining-population-data-by-state\/","title":{"rendered":"(Beginner Question) Having Troubles Obtaining Population Data By State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Hello! I&#8217;m not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I was given some feedback on my dashboard (<a href=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/views\/UFOSightingsintheUS_17069361456020\/Dashboard3?:language=en-US&amp;publish=yes&amp;:display_count=n&amp;:origin=viz_share_link\">https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/views\/UFOSightingsintheUS_17069361456020\/Dashboard3?:language=en-US&amp;publish=yes&amp;:display_count=n&amp;:origin=viz_share_link<\/a>) to incorporate a metric that accounts for the population of each state to show sightings per capita instead of just highlighting areas with larger populations. I&#8217;m trying to get population data for the years 1990-2014, so I can create a map of the populations by state and then layer the number of sightings on top of this map.<\/p>\n<p>However, I\u2019ve been having an extremely difficult time doing this. I think I may be overthinking it, but I\u2019ve tried to look for the data (Population by State) on the US Census website and haven&#8217;t been able to get any dataset for any of the years I want. I did find this dataset on GitHub, which I believe I can use (<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/aaronpenne\/data_visualization\/blob\/master\/population\/data\/USA_Population_of_States_US_Census_Intercensal_Tables_1917-2017.csv\">https:\/\/github.com\/aaronpenne\/data_visualization\/blob\/master\/population\/data\/USA_Population_of_States_US_Census_Intercensal_Tables_1917-2017.csv<\/a>) but from here, how do I create a map out of it and connect it to my UFO sightings data? This dataset also doesn&#8217;t get properly imported when I try to upload it in Tableau, so I&#8217;m also having that issue.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry if any of this sounds confusing I can clarify if needed. I just don&#8217;t know what to do I&#8217;ve tried asking ChatGPT and looking through Reddit and Tableau Community, but I&#8217;m still lost and need to submit this dashboard today :\/<\/p>\n<p>Thank you!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/communityboyfriend\"> \/u\/communityboyfriend <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1am0z27\/beginner_question_having_troubles_obtaining\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1am0z27\/beginner_question_having_troubles_obtaining\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-25615 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='25615' data-nonce='614a020375' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-25615 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-25615 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! I&#8217;m not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I was given some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}