and accessing data is the first step of every analysis. Here we will go through these steps.</p></li>
<li><p>First go to this <a href="https://simplemaps.com/data/us-cities">site</a> and download the appropriate (free) dataset into the data directory of your project.</p></li>
<li><p>Once downloaded, read it into your working session using <code>readr::read_csv()</code> and explore the dataset until you are comfortable with the information it contains.</p></li>
<li><p>While this data has everything we want, 