Free courses, webinars, tutorials and "data gems" to teach you how to use Census data. Learn how to use the US Census Bureau's free data for work, school, or other projects.
March 2021 white paper from ESRI summarizing the methodology behind the American Community Survey, as well as some details on how ESRI-provided data differs from the U.S. Census Bureau data.
Introduces the U.S. Census Bureau’s new data explorer tool, My Community Explorer (MCE). MCE is an interactive map-based tool that highlights demographic and socioeconomic data that measure inequality and can help inform data-based solutions. This tool is designed to help users identify underserved communities as directed by the President's Executive Order 13985 on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility in the Federal Workforce.
How about getting data directly into an Excel spreadsheet, or getting data with Python or R?
A section from Chapter 5 of the Creative Commons licensed eBook, "Python Open Source Spatial Programming and Remote Sensing," by Michael Mann, Steven Chao, Jordan Graesser, and Nina Feldman. Steven Chao is the sole author of this section.
Learn how to use Excel to summarize, analyze, and visualize Census data. NOTE: While this course uses the obsolete American Fact Finder data portal, users will be able to access the same data through the Data.Census.gov portal.
Learn how to use the Census Bureau’s application programming interface (API) to quickly access data in a standardized way. In just a few easy steps, you can edit a sample URL, save your results, and open it in Excel to get the data you need. This webinar will serve as an introduction to help get you started and get you familiar with how to navigate the application programming interface.
Dive into American Community Survey (ACS) data using R and Python statistical software packages and libraries. In this webinar, Census Bureau experts and experienced ACS data users give you an overview of what is available, examples of real projects and case studies that have used these packages and libraries, and resources in order to learn more about working with these resources.
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