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petewarden / dstk

A collection of the best open data sets and open-source tools for data science
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DSTK alternatives? #69

Open skalkin opened 5 years ago

skalkin commented 5 years ago

It appears that the project is no longer maintained. I wonder if anyone knows of somewhat similar open-source projects that offer geocoding and extracting demographics and statistics? Other popular data conversion/enrichment routines are of interest as well.

mikedolanfliss commented 5 years ago

You might check out the R package tidycensus (and related packages) which uses the Census API for demographic extraction - I've been really enjoying it. It's not perfect, but there are similar packages (e.g. ggmap, or custom use of the OSM API) for geocoding that use either google (with an API, which, if free, has limits) and the US Census API, again, which doesn't. More and more open source geocoding options all the time, though to be honest I'm still wrapping my head around them. QGIS also has options for geocoding using google OR open street map, and can use a local file as well.