Useful Libraries for Developers Using Census Bureau Data

If you are interested in doing some advanced analytics on your own here in the US.  

This is from the Census Bureau Data News Letter.

Python

Maintainer: Data Made

A simple wrapper for the Census Data API. Provides access to ACS, SF1, and SF3 data sets.

Maintainer: Levi John Wolf

An interface to explore and query the Census Data API and return Pandas Dataframes. Ideally, this package is intended for exploratory data analysis and draws inspiration from sqlalchemy-like interfaces and acs.R.

R

Maintainer: Kyle Walker

R package that allows users to interface with the Census Bureau’s Decennial Census and five-year American Community APIs and return tidyverse-ready data frames, optionally with simple feature geometry included.

Maintainer: Hannah Recht

censusapi is an accessor for the Census Data APIs. As of 2017 over 200 Census API endpoints are available, including Decennial Census, American Community Survey, Poverty Statistics, and Population Estimates APIs. This package is designed to let you get data from all of those APIs using the same main function — getCensus— and the same syntax for each dataset.

Ruby

Maintainer: Ty Rauber

A Ruby Gem for querying the Census Data API.

JavaScript

Maintainer: US Census Bureau

Convenience JavaScript utilities for working with Census Data APIs: Statistics, Cartographic GeoJSON, lat/lng -> FIPS, and other niceties.