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State Demographics is not time oriented #99

Open acbart opened 7 years ago

acbart commented 7 years ago

Where can we get time data for state demographics? It's too small as is.

acbart commented 7 years ago

http://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/decennial-census.1990.html

acbart commented 7 years ago

http://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/hiscendata.html

acbart commented 7 years ago

This is definitely going to require some tricky interpolation.

acbart commented 7 years ago

Nativity of the population (1850-1990): https://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0029/tab13.html Rural/Urban population (1900-1990): https://www.census.gov/population/censusdata/urpop0090.txt Education (1940-2000): http://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/educational-attainment/educational-attainment-1940-2000.html Income (1984-2015): https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.census.gov%2Fprograms-surveys%2Fcps%2Ftables%2Ftime-series%2Fhistorical-income-households%2Fh08.xls

Age Group: - Employment Firms / Ethnicity: - Ethnicities: - Employment / Farming: - Housing: - Population: Population per square mile: Sales:

acbart commented 7 years ago

I guess we should go down the API route. Let's see where that ends up taking us, I suppose. Either way, this will certainly be a mess of a dataset.

acbart commented 7 years ago

So, the API has a certain range of features available. The most sailent ones seem to be...