Contains data and visualization functions for USA unemployment data. Data comes from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). State data is in ?df_state_unemployment and covers 2000-2013. County data is in ?df_county_unemployment and covers 1990-2013. Choropleth maps of the data can be generated with ?state_unemployment_choropleth() and ?county_unemployment_choropleth() respectively.
This R Package contains data and visualization functions for USA unemployment data. The data was scraped from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in January 2015. The functions which scraped the data are also in this package, which allows you to reproduce and verify the dataset yourself.
Documentation for this package, including a free course, can be found here.