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The code was executed on macOS version 14.5 using R version 4.2.2 and Python version 3.8.3.
Before running the code, please ensure that the packages in each .ipynb and .Rmd file are installed. Please visit each package's website for installation instructions. The typical installation time should not be more than a few minutes.
The list of municipalities, their population sizes, locations, and the American Community Survey data can be downloaded from https://www.nhgis.org/. The website addresses of U.S. municipalities are available at https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083231190961. The datasets generated and analyzed during the study are deposited in the folder data. All code is available in the current directory.
The expected runtime for each code sheet is within a few minutes, except for 07_get_text.py, which was run on Michigan State University's High-Performance Computing Center and took a few hours.