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Add dataset for population and race percentages by county #102

Closed oscardssmith closed 6 years ago

oscardssmith commented 6 years ago

I have compiled the following spreadsheet, which I think would be a good fit for this data repository. All data comes from 2010 census figures, and it's advantage over said tables is that it doesn't require going through a 5000 line cross reference to figure out what each column means, and all figures are in the same sheet instead split across 20 different ones over 3 files.

I understand that this repository is meant for datasets featured in 538 articles, but it seems likely that this sort of data will be used in the future, and I can't think of a better repository for this to live in.

Race % and Pop by County.xlsx

dmil commented 6 years ago

As you mentioned, this repo contains data and code behind stories and interactives at FiveThirtyEight, so I'm going to go ahead and close the issue for now. Thanks for the suggestion.

klatta87 commented 6 years ago

This is a great resource Oscar. Maybe depositing it on Kaggle would be a more appropriate repository. It would be great if a similarly formatted file was sourced from more recent American Community Survey data. Do you have an easy way to complie from that?

oscardssmith commented 6 years ago

no, this way made by decompiling census data and removing state info by hand