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Finding Census Tracts on Census Reporter
One of the more frequently asked questions we get for Census Reporter is from people having trouble finding Census tracts. Here’s what you need to know: First, we’ve had a lot of trouble gett...
More ways to use Census boundaries on your slippy map
A few weeks ago we released a simple feature to add Census boundaries to your “slippy maps.” Today we’re happy to share some more tricks of this nature. The earlier feature only gave you A...
Easily add Census boundaries to your slippy map
Beyond the site itself, one of our goals with Census Reporter is to provide tools that help people work with US Census data. If you use Leaflet to make “slippy maps,” you can now use Census...
A simple tour of Census Reporter, prepared for our entry in the...
A simple tour of Census Reporter, prepared for our entry in the Amazon City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge
Easier Census Data Downloads
By: Ian Dees We’re working very hard at Census Reporter to make navigating and exploring Census Bureau’s American Community Survey data easier. Today, we’re launching a new data browser a...
Easier Access to ACS Data
By: Ian Dees With the most recent releases of American Community Survey data, the database snapshot we’ve been using for Census Reporter has grown by tens of thousands of rows and gigabyte...
ACS 2012 5-year Data Release
By: Ian Dees Census released the ACS 2012 5-year estimates on December 17th and we immediately loaded them into our Census Reporter dataset. After working to compress the dataset, we’re makin...
Next Steps for Census Reporter
BY SARA SCHNADT Planning in progress after ONA - with Census Reporter Community Liaison/Designer Sara Schnadt, Front-End Developer/Designer Ryan Pitts, Board Member John Keefe, Project Lead Joe ...
ACS 2012 3-year Data Release
By: Ian Dees Census released the ACS 2012 3-year estimates on November 14th and we immediately loaded them into our Census Reporter dataset. Today we’re making the updated EBS snapshot availa...
Learning from YOU - Test-driving Census Reporter BETA at ONA
BY SARA SCHNADT The Census Reporter team was present in force at the Online News Association conference two weeks ago in Atlanta. We all came out to show off the newly launched beta site and t...
ACS 2012 1-year Data Release
By: Ian Dees Census released the ACS 2012 1-year estimates on September 19th and we immediately loaded them into our Census Reporter dataset. Today we’re making the updated EBS snapshot avail...
Our beta site is live at beta.censusreporter.org. In the spirit...
OUR BETA SITE IS LIVE AT BETA.CENSUSREPORTER.ORG . In the spirit of open and iterative development, we’re making it available to the public as early as possible. Much will change, and we wo...
Using Census Data in PostgreSQL
By Ian Dees UPDATED 16-JANUARY-2014: Since the last update of this post, we’ve updated the data snapshot to include the 2012 5-year ACS release. The instructions remain the same with the ex...
Hatching Plans for Census Data Power Tools
It felt like it took a long time, but the Census Reporter team is finally fully assembled. Two weeks ago the members of the team converged on Chicago for a kickoff/road mapping session. The North...
Ian Dees and Ryan Pitts join our development team
We are thrilled to have Ian Dees (left) and Ryan Pitts (right) join us as and complete the CensusReporter team as our back and front-end developers. Ian Dees recently worked as the database int...
Journalists, we want to build CensusReporter around your needs and vision. Take our survey here!
Journalists, we want to build CensusReporter around your needs and vision. Take our survey here! : (and join more in-depth conversation on our Input Blog )
Learn more about Knight News Challenge: Data winners, including...
Learn more about Knight News Challenge: Data winners, including CensusReporter.
Introducing Community Liaison Sara Schnadt
We are pleased to have Sara Schnadt join the CensusReporter team as our Community Liaison. A technology project developer, information architect, data visualization designer and artist, she will...
App developers! Come help us build CensusReporter
Funded by a Knight News Challenge grant, Census.IRE.org is a suite of tools to help journalists use census data for reporting. We are seeking two experienced web developers to help us continue de...