Public Data Application Urls
This library defines a set of Application Urls and Row Generators that allow access to public datasets. For instance, using the Census Reporter URLs, you can define access to a American Community Survey data table on the Census Reporter website. Then, using the associated Row Generator, you can download the data as a sequences of rows.
For instance, this code will return rows from ACS table B17001 for tracts in San Diego County
from publicdata import parse_app_url
url = parse_app_url("census://CA/140/B17001")
# Or: url = CensusReporterUrl(table='B17001',summarylevel='140',geoid='CA')
for row in url.generator:
print(row)
The library uses the appurl and rowgenerator python entrypoints, so all
libraries that you install that use the entrypoints can be accessed via the
parse_app_url
and get_generator
functions.
Goals
The ADSFree online book has an excellent list of datasets ( and R code for downloading them ) that this library should incorporate. The author also has downloading code for these datasets in the lowdown R package