Feb. 21, 2022, 10:09 a.m. | Chuck Connell

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The only tool you need for mapping USA FIPS codes to states, counties, abbreviations, and vice versa

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The Problem

When doing data science with geographic locations it is common to juggle USA FIPS codes, state names, county names, abbreviations, etc. There are various tables of this information scattered around the Internet, but every one I found is lacking in some way. The state abbreviations are missing, or the county names are in inconsistent format, …

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