Misc mortality and other stuff

This repository contains code of various examples related to mortality and Bayesian models. It started out just US mortality examples but now is just a dumping ground for all sorts of stuff.

• acs ACS related, currently just a tidycensus example
• babynamesapp code for baby names shiny app: https://monica-alexander.shinyapps.io/babynames_app/
• birthweight_bayes_viz code related to the Bayes Viz blog post.
• CA_county_example contains code to fit a subnational mortality model to estimate age-specific death rates in california over 1999-2016.
• letters: An E and H made with ggplot and generative art.
• lifspan_variation looks at standard deviation in age at death across US states
• lifetable_sim code for this Shiny app: https://monica-alexander.shinyapps.io/lifetable_sim/
• plot_tree.R plots a year's worth of git commits in the shape of a Christmas tree.
• stata_labels R code to parse Stata label definitions
• us_hmd_example shows how you can plot highest and lowest life expectancy over time using data from the United States Mortality Database: https://usa.mortality.org/
• world_maternal_crvs not state mortality at all, but a global map of the intersection of maternal mortality and CRVS data coverage