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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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

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

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• The People
• Build something
• Public sector innovation labs

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

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• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

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
• Media
• The People

2022 book by Dan Bouk

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• Civic data
• Books
• Predecessors

Get A Certificate in Inclusive Community Engagement

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• Engagement tech

We help government teams gather & analyze inclusive data to achieve equitable outcomes. Get actionable insights faster with our cloud-based solution.

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• Data visualization
• Surveys & polling

A small static website gathering open data from Decidim platforms around the world.

• Decidim

• Engagement tech
• Evaluate impact

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

The Brigade Network Census is a series of questions that we at Code for America are asking all Brigade volunteers to answer so that we can learn more about who makes up our vast and distributed community

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• Civic tech community surveys
• Fieldwide resources

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

Excel and Census Data Workshop Instructors Guide

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

Ideas and perspectives you won’t find anywhere else.

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• Meet the others
• Learn about civic tech

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

• Surveys & polling
• Ideation
• Digital participation platforms

The Environmental Justice Index (EJI) scores census tracts using a percentile ranking which represents the proportion of tracts that experience cumulative impacts of environmental burden and injustice equal to or lower than a tract of interest.

• Good health and well-being
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps

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 3-year census of the wild cat population in Washington, DC

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• Crowdsourcing

This new coloring book is the perfect tool for kids and adults to learn about the political landscape of the United States in a fun and interactive way.

• Civic literacy
• Artistic interventions

The Counting Us mobile app was developed by Simtech Solutions to automate the collection of data for the annual homeless census.

• homelessness

• Crowdsourcing

The City's crowdsourced, data-driven obituaries for New Yorkers who have died from COVID-19

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• Media
• Crowdsourcing
• COVID Engagement Projects

The Reporters’ Lab is a center for journalism research in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Our core projects focus on fact-checking, but we also do occasional research about trust in the news media and other topics.

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• Media
• The People

Wazimap provides useful facts about places in South Africa

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• Civic data
• Civic maps

HURUmap gives infomediaries like journalists and civic activists an easy ‘plug & play’ toolkit for finding and embedding interactive data visualisations into their storytelling. The project's underlying data is quality-checked, from reputable official sources including the government Census, PEPFAR and Uwezo.

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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Supernormal explored an algorithm that integrates social equity as a key variable in prioritizing infrastructural replacements and repairs.

• Reduced inequalities
• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure

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• Civic data
• Data visualization

PesaCheck is a fact-checking initiative to verify the financial and other statistical numbers quoted by public figures across East Africa, supported by International Budget Partnership, and Code for Africa affiliates in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

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• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Budget explorers

Technology at work for the public

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Understanding the balance between utility, privacy and the uncertainty associated with synthetic data sets

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• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence