Reference: National Day of Civic Hacking Results in New Web Applications Using American Community Survey Statistics
From the U.S. Census:
More than 11,000 people across the country participated in the National Day of Civic Hacking on June 1-2, with many of them using the rich array of local statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey to develop new online apps.
One app developed at the event creates heat maps that show American Community Survey statistics at the county level across the United States.
View (and Use) Other Apps Developed Using Census API/Data
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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