census

Working with the Census API Directly from SAS

A post showing how PROC HTTP and LIBNAME JSON can be used to directly work with the Census API from SAS.

Census 2020 Population Estimates Updated

The Census Bureau has updated its population estimates for 2020 with county level data. This means any projects that have had to rely on the 2019 estimates can now switch to the 2020 estimates.

North Carolina Housing Data

A popular beginners machine learning problem is the prediction of housing prices. A frequently used data set for this purpose uses housing prices in California along some additional gathered through the 1990 Census.

Accessing Census Data via API

The Census Bureau makes an incredible amount of data available online. In this post, I will summarize how to get access to this data via Python by using the Census Bureau’s API.