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It's good that they're trying to update census access, because by all accounts, trying to work with census data has been hell on earth. A bunch of news apps gu
by knowtheory 14y ago
It's good that they're trying to update census access, because by all accounts, trying to work with census data has been hell on earth.
A bunch of news apps guys under the aegis of Investigative Reporters & Editors put together an alternative API that's much easier to work with:
http://census.ire.org/ http://census.ire.org/
http://census.ire.org/docs/javascript-library.html http://census.ire.org/docs/javascript-library.html
- slurgfest 14y agoIf you think that working with US government data is hell on earth, what kind of publicly-provided data are you normally working with?
- knowtheory 14y agoTo be clear, it's not the data that they've collected that's the problem, it's the data access that the census has thus far provided. That's why it's so important that they've made an attempt to update their portal and API. That said... their dev forum still requires devs to wait for manual moderation in their sign up, for instance.