[Alpha] - Demographics data in SimpleGeo Context

[Andrew Mager (Employee)]

We've enabled a new dataset in SimpleGeo Context that lets you find hundreds of different bits of demographic information for a given location.

The data is from the American Community Survey collected by the US Census Bureau. Here's how you query the data:

    http://api.simplegeo.com/1.0/context/40.74,-74.json?token=Vf3J6tsAMuUNWnwh6b5VWYmm5hGrfQz4&filter=demographics.acs.B08012

This returns "sex of workers by travel time to work" for a location in Manhattan. "B08012" is a table name from this gigantic (2.7mb), 24,000+ row table of data from the American Community Survey: http://sgeo.co/sg_acs_2009.

The "filter" parameter in Context is also new, and allows you to selectively decide what comes back in a response. Here is the updated documentation for SimpleGeo Context: https://simplegeo.com/docs/api-endpoints/simplegeo-context

Mad props to Ben Standefer and the SimpleGeo engineering team for getting this in production.

If you have any questions about using the new Demographics product, or if you have ideas about how to better display the data, please let me know. This product is still in Alpha.

Thanks!

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Andrew Mager

Developer Advocate, SimpleGeo

[sromalewski]

Very cool, thanks for putting this together.  Will this return tract-level data based on either lat/lon or a tract ID?  And will the JSON result include the Census geoid (whether it's tract or otherwise)?

[Andrew Mager (Employee)]

The Census Tract comes back if you do this query:

http://api.simplegeo.com/1.0/context/40.74,-74.json?token=Vf3J6tsAMuUNWnwh6b5VWYmm5hGrfQz4&filter=demographics.acs.B08012,features

... but it returns all of the features (including city, state, neighborhood, etc). We're working on a way to filter out specific pieces of the features response. You'd be able to do something like category=features__Census%20Tract or something.

[Andrew Mager]

The Census Tract comes back if you do this query:

http://api.simplegeo.com/1.0/context/40.74,-74.json?token=Vf3J6tsAMuUNWnwh6b5VWYmm5hGrfQz4&filter=demographics.acs.B08012,features

... but it returns all of the features (including city, state, neighborhood, etc). We're working on a way to filter out specific pieces of the features response. You'd be able to do something like category=features__Census%20Tract or something.

Let me know if you have any more questions!

-Andrew

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:48 PM, sromalewski <sroma...@gmail.com> wrote:

Very cool, thanks for putting this together.  Will this return tract-level data based on either lat/lon or a tract ID?  And will the JSON result include the Census geoid (whether it's tract or otherwise)?

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[Ben Standefer]

We can return the census tract ID and the logical record number (ACS calls it "logrecno") that identifies where in the ACS data the numbers came from.  Look for that in a week or two.  I'll reply to this thread when we do that.

-Ben

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:48 PM, sromalewski <sroma...@gmail.com> wrote:

Very cool, thanks for putting this together.  Will this return tract-level data based on either lat/lon or a tract ID?  And will the JSON result include the Census geoid (whether it's tract or otherwise)?

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[Andrew Mager]

Here's a Google Doc of all the different tables you can query from the American Community Survey: http://sgeo.co/sg_demographics

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[Ben Standefer]

We are now returning "logrecno" as part of the ACS demographics responses, which aligns with the 2005-2009 ACS entities if you are are census buff familiar with how the ACS data is laid out.

We also return the corresponding census tract if you do filter=acs.demographics.B01001,features.  The feature with the subcategory "Tract" represents the corresponding census tract, and the name of the feature with subcategory "Tract" is the census tract number.

-Ben

[Mahmudur Rahman]

Hi,

 

I want to know if SimpleGeo Context API is still available and if available,how I can get the API key?As i know it has been aquired by Urban Airship but I find nowhere the API key for SimpleGeo Context API information.Please help....

[Dustin Oprea]

UA is internalizing everything within a couple of months. I doubt that you can get access if you don't already have it.

Dustin Oprea

On Jan 27, 2012 9:13 PM, "Mahmudur Rahman" <mrah...@fiu.edu> wrote:

Hi,

 

I want to know if SimpleGeo Context API is still available and if available,how I can get the API key?As i know it has been aquired by Urban Airship but I find nowhere the API key for SimpleGeo Context API information.Please help....

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