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A place for pulling together helpful information, data, rules of conduct, and links to resources that should be relevant to participants and organizers who care about the problem of Gerrymandering.
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census data #2

Open amyleew opened 7 years ago

amyleew commented 7 years ago

@impreze and Justin,

let's take a look at census data for the past 2 collections and figure out the most basic data we should include for the hackathon.

impreze commented 7 years ago

This is a basic, but very large table of demographic estimates during the 114th Congress. The table contains age, sex and race data for all Congressional Districts in the US States and Island areas (Puerto Rico). Contains estimates from 2011-2015.

https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/15_1YR/CP05/0100000US.50000.114

Sample: Sample Congressional District Demographic Data

You can go back with a table during the 113th Congress, most of the data would overlap. Estimates for 2009-2013.

https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/13_1YR/CP05/0100000US.50000.113

alliesaizan commented 7 years ago

I spent a little time today looking through the Census API, and I think I can tackle writing up some documentation for accessing this in Python. I can get to it this weekend. Here's a reference: https://www.census.gov/data/developers/guidance/api-user-guide.Query_Examples.html