Hard-coded dates in your code makes errors related to dates easy to make and hard to find, even if you are good about commenting your code. Recently I re-organized how I track all the dates I use and I wanted to share that process here!

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HUD Data Standards, looking at them too much (blurred) Thanks to HUD's changes to the reference numbers for each of the different "Living Situation" responses (like "Rental by client, no ongoing subsidy" and such), I recently created a really useful function that takes the reference number and …

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I'm writing this to my homeless services colleagues who may be considering R. A basic understanding of what the Tidyverse is could help with focusing on where to begin learning about the data manipulation part of what we do. R is a language and environment actively maintained by contributors to the project and the R …

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