User:Mattrdini/sandbox

Data USA is a free platform that allows users to collect, analyze, and visualize shared U.S. government data. Launched on April 4, 2016, Data USA is the product of an ongoing partnership between Deloitte, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Macro Connections Group, and Datawheel.

Architecture
Data USA utilizes open data from seven data sources, cleaned and standardized into a PostgreSQL database, accessible via a public API. The back-end of the site is driven by the python framework,  Flask.

Visualizations
The visualizations found on Data USA are created in JavaScript using a combination of D3 and D3plus JavaScript libraries.

Data Sources
The information and data visualizations found on Data USA make use of seven publicly available data sources :

American Community Survey (ACS)
The American Community Survey (ACS) is survey conducted regularly by the U.S. Census Bureau. Since 2000, it has replaced the long form U.S. Census that was formerly given once every ten years. Administered on a continuous monthly basis, the ACS aims to provide a steady stream of demographic, housing, social, and economic data.

American Community Survey (ACS) Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS)
Public Use Microdata Sample is a data set made available by the U.S. Census Bureau and includes one year, three year, and five year chronologies. The PUMS is a set of untabulated records regarding individual people and individual housing units. For this reason, PUMS allows for custom data ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) manipulation.