Hi,
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Thad Guidry thadguidry@gmail.com wrote:
We had US Census, World Bank, and UN Data as our primary data sources for any /statistics/ of a City/Town/Village. Here's Houston - https://www.freebase.com/m/03l2n#/location/statistical_region
I don't understand where a lot of those numbers are from.
Also, maybe Houston is a bad example because the Census Bureau revised numbers after the data was released.[0] Even some official Census Bureau sites still report the old, pre-appeal number.[1]
There are multiple years that have duplicate conflicting values after clicking "65 values total ยป" at your link. At first I was thinking it may be something like estimates base vs. estimate vs. decennial. However, for 2010 and 2011 there's one value that matches estimate from [1] (source = [2]) and a larger value (source = [3]) that does not match any other data I've seen. [2] and [3] both use the same "Attribution URI" [4].
In any case, why take this from freebase instead of importing directly from Census Bureau data? It's available in bulk. Format isn't great but isn't horrible either. (at least the 5-year ACS is inconsistent about upper/lower case for state two letter abbreviations. and, I think, most humans would prefer something like a geoid as a key rather than a dataset specific key used to look up the geoid in a different file. and other quirks)
-Jeremy
[0] http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/City-wins-census-app... [1] http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/PEP/2013/PEPANNRES/1620000US4... [2] https://www.freebase.com/g/11x1k306j [3] https://www.freebase.com/m/0jst35z [4] http://www.census.gov/popest/about/terms.html