censusreporter's Repositories

Tools to help aggregate American Community Survey data to non-Census geographies

Machine readable table hierarchy for US Census Bureau's American Community Survey

Source for census.ire.org, including data processing scripts.

A tool to aggregate American Community Survey data to non-census geographies.

The home for the API that powers the Census Reporter project.

Some page skeletons

For now, idle exploration around making it easier to use the pandas library to analyze Census data.

Simple scripts for fetching Census places data and generating json representations

PostgreSQL schema and import scripts for recent US Census data

Scripts used to set up census-postgres on an Amazon EC2 instance.

Tools for fetching shapefiles from the Census FTP site, then extracting data from them.

Tools for generating metadata about tables and fields in a Census release based on sequence lookup and table shell files.

Census Reporter is a Knight News Challenge-funded project to make it easier for journalists to write stories using information from the U.S. Census bureau.

This project was inspired by our friends in the EU who created a City SDK for Europe. This project is led by the US Census Bureau in collaboration with other federal and local government entities, as well as private industry.

Materials for NICAR2016 panel on demographics

Materials for a NICAR 2020 workshop on advanced Census data with Python

A collection of Jupyter notebooks demonstrating ways to analyze Census data

Code to develop a cross-reference between US Census Bureau geography identifiers and Wikipedia pages about those places.