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  American Community Finder / Builder

  

  Filter local meetups by various variables within the ACS 5-year data down to the block-group (enabled by zooming into the geographic area). By mashing these two APIs (http://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/, http://www.census.gov/developers/data/) together, community builders can identify groups and leadership/influencers that exist within areas of interest. Hopefully enabling a sort of distributed knowledge management system. ...more »

  

  Filter local meetups by various variables within the ACS 5-year data down to the block-group (enabled by zooming into the geographic area).

  By mashing these two APIs (http://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/, http://www.census.gov/developers/data/) together, community builders can identify groups and leadership/influencers that exist within areas of interest. Hopefully enabling a sort of distributed knowledge management system.

  In this example application, it is assumed the community builder is a proponent of ‘Asset Based Community Development’ and is seeking to find groups upon which to build to improve communities that have high rates of poverty.

  I welcome any collaborators to make this rough concept better by making it your own.

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  Submitted by logan.t.powell 1 month ago

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  Facebook Places / Foursquare + ACS 5-yr Mashup

  A fun app that imports a users foursquare / facebook places, mashes them up with ACS data to give the user a demographic profile of the places they frequent. Maybe add some social factors to show wherein the socio-economic spectrum they seem to identify. Maybe turn it into a geocaching app that helps users identify other places that they might 'like'. Like a pandora of locations. The location genome project XD ...more »

  A fun app that imports a users foursquare / facebook places, mashes them up with ACS data to give the user a demographic profile of the places they frequent.

  Maybe add some social factors to show wherein the socio-economic spectrum they seem to identify.

  Maybe turn it into a geocaching app that helps users identify other places that they might 'like'. Like a pandora of locations. The location genome project XD

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  Submitted by logan.t.powell 10 months ago

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  ACS Choropleth Maps

  

  http://acsmapper.appspot.com/D3 Given the dearth of other live examples, I felt like I should post something, though I haven't been able to do a lot of necessary cleanup and polish. It was nice to be able to pull something like this together with just a few hours of work via the Census API, though. For a given ACS sub-table (anything with an _002E or higher suffix), I'm calling the data for all US counties and dividing ...more »

  

  http://acsmapper.appspot.com/D3

  Given the dearth of other live examples, I felt like I should post something, though I haven't been able to do a lot of necessary cleanup and polish. It was nice to be able to pull something like this together with just a few hours of work via the Census API, though.

  For a given ACS sub-table (anything with an _002E or higher suffix), I'm calling the data for all US counties and dividing those numbers into the applicable total (the _001E figures) for that topic. Which isn't a valid calculation for some of these tables, some some choices crash it entirely — and that's the cleanup I haven't done yet.

  But it's still interesting to be able to page through all of this detailed data and spot the biggest concentrations of, say, people who bike to work (http://acsmapper.appspot.com/D3?acs_table=B08006_014E).

  I'm really excited about the API, and interested to see what people do with it now that it's opened up.

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  Submitted by alanj 1 year ago

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