@censusAmericans

https://twitter.com/censusAmericans

Summer 2015

ACS PUMS data, Python

CensusAmericans 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 American Community Survey’s Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) into mini-narratives. Once an hour, it turns a row of data into a real person.

Read the article at fivethirtyeight.com

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