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Visualizing census data

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Visualizing census data

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The US Census Bureau is one of the largest data gathering institutions in the world, and its collected information is available online for any savvy developer to use. In this lesson, I'll show you just how to be among the savviest. Home base for developers interested in mining the Census data is census.gov/developers. And the first stop on your tour should be to get an API key, so I'll go to Request a Key, click that link. Now, once you enter your information details and agree to the terms of service, you'll be emailed a key along with an activation link. Click that link to complete the process. And if successful, you'll be able to start accessing the API in about five minutes. The Census API allows stateless HTTP GET requests with up to 50 variables. Responses are provided in JSON. So, let me go to a blank tab and I'll paste in a URL that I previously copied and hit return. And very quickly, I'm presented with the population of all 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia and…

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