2022 book by Dan Bouk

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• books

• Civic data
• Books
• Predecessors

Modern administrative data—from 311 and 911 calls to building permit applications to Tweets—offer a detailed view of events and conditions across the city.

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• cities

• Civic data
• Narrative tech
• Urban planning

Making Census Data Easy to Use

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• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

A Twitter bot by FiveThirtyEight. Called censusAmericans, it tweets short biographies of Americans based on data they provided to the U.S. Census Bureau between 2009 and 2013. Using a small Python program, the bot reconstitutes numbers and codes from the data into mini-narratives. Once an hour, it turns a row of data into a real person.

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• Bots

Launched by Black Futures Lab in early 2018, the Black Census Project is the largest survey of Black people conducted in the United States since Reconstruction.

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• racial equity

• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation
• Surveys & polling

We bring together government, industry, and communities to unleash creativity and solve national challenges.

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• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

Census Reporter provides useful facts about every place in America. Compare places using tables and maps, download data, and embed charts on your site!

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• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Wazimap provides useful facts about places in South Africa

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• Civic data
• Civic maps

From Saving the Census to Google Maps: The US Census Bureau's TIGER System, 1980-2010

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• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The USC Annenberg Innovation Lab and Wise Entertainment have assembled a powerful coalition of experts in media, communications, data, technology and journalism to ensure everyone knows how much census participation benefits their community.

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• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

Excel and Census Data Workshop Instructors Guide

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• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

A series of projects, events, and resources in support of the 2020 US Census

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• The People
• Build something
• Building in the private sector

Census Accelerate, an initiative within the innovation arm of the U.S. Census Bureau, has launched its first-ever video prize competition to reward the most engaging, impactful and informative videos about the 2020 Census - with a total of $50,000 in cash prizes.

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• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Mapping Hard to Count (HTC) Communities for a Fair and Accurate 2020 Census

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• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization