OpenNews/hackdays/storyandalgorithm/censusdataprofiles

Project name: Censusify

One-line project description: It allows any user to add a census layer to their applications.

Your team: Gabriel Florit, Joe Germuska, Alex Maties

Project URL(s), if applicable: http://github.com/JoeGermuska/opennews , http://github.com/gabrielflorit/opennews

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What are you building: This tool provides a visualization which distills hundreds of data points about the ages of people in a place into a single chart.

Who is it for: Users of Census.IRE.org

Your goal for this weekend: where are you trying to get to by 2:45pm Sunday in terms of features, functionality or other creations

Your starting point: We're leveraging the Javascript API for Census data from Census.IRE.org.

Anything else we should know: Our ultimate goal is to create a clean dashboard as the primary component of Census.IRE.org, pushing the raw data one step further away. We will look more closely at the Spokesman-Review's Census project and maybe City Data to get ideas about what is useful. We might even make calls to the new Official Census API

• How is this project useful? It is a tool that allows any piece of text to be census tagged, like geotagging. It helps make census data more accessible for reporters and allows readers to access the data and dig deeper as well.
• Where is this project going and what lessons/concepts can be applied to other projects? The goal is to make the bookmarklet and API for the application fully functional. The original concept for the project grew out of an existing census tool on the IRE site for reporters. This tool could be folded back into the IRE tool. The concept of tagging additional bits of info in stories with existing data could be expanded to other data sets such as the American Community Survey and other ways of comparing data such as between censuses.