This app uses data from the American Community Survey to help people understand how America has changed since Covid-19.
In addition to informing the public, I hope that this project will inspire others to use Python to explore Census data. If you'd like to use this repo as a starting off point for your own project, see DEVELOPER.md.
In June 2024 I spoke about this project at the San Francisco Python Meetup. You can watch a recording of that talk here.
In addition to the talk, I've written several blog posts about this project:
- New Release: Covid Demographics Explorer v2 discusses the addition of the Swarm plot as well as improvements to the codebase.
- Creating Time Series Data from the American Community Survey (ACS) explains how the dataset is generated.
- Visualizing the Impact of Covid-19 on US Counties discusses the choice to use counties as the geographic unit for this project.
- Building a Census Explorer in Python: Part 1 explains the technology choices made at the start of the project.
This app was created by Ari Lamstein.