I'm hoping to write an expanded post about this, but for now: we're using the 2009-2013 American Community Survey (a product the Census Bureau puts out yearly, rather than the every-ten-years Census). You can download CSVs of the whole thing here: http://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/201.... We took those and TIGER data (geospatial data specifying what areas each of the stats in the CSV correspond to), and put them into a Postgres db with PostGIS.
If you're not looking to show the whole US at a granular level like we are, you might be able to skip the FTP server approach a few ways. They recently released CitySDK (https://uscensusbureau.github.io/citysdk/), which seems like a nice way to get at Census data from the browser, though I haven't personally used it. There's also a set of APIs (https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets.html), which might work depending on what specifically you're trying to do. A third way to get at it is to use American FactFinder (http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml), which lets you drill in and search for whatever fields and/or geographies you care about, and export them.
If you just want to browse around Census data, I also love Census Reporter (http://censusreporter.org).
If it's not harmful to any competitive advantages you have, it would be lovely if you could do a blog post of all the open data sources you know of (or, are there any directories that maintain up to date lists of open data sources?)
Remix is creating technology that empowers cities to be great for everyone. We’re starting with an underserved and core part of infrastructure: public transit. Our product is used by cities around the world to help them plan public transit more efficiently and effectively.
We're looking for a frontend engineer who join our three person engineering team, and help us quickly make improvements and build new features.
We've gotten incredible traction so far (signed contracts 50+ cities in under a year), and that's been in large part because of how well our product (http://getremix.com) works. You'll get a ton of responsibility, get to join a small but quickly growing startup, and to work on something that matters.
Design is at the heart of what we do. You’ll be in charge of the user experience at Remix, helping to create a compelling simple app used by cities across the world to plan great transit. Our company was founded by designers (Sam and Tiffany) and we take this stuff very seriously.
You’d be a good fit if:
• You have experience creating and maintaining products with real-world users.
• Your visual design is strong and opinionated.
• You’ve worked closely with engineers to get great design out the door.
You should be comfortable making detailed graphics and figuring out how an application should work and feel. Even better if you can turn your ideas into working prototypes using HTML and CSS.
To apply, email jobs@getremix.com with a portfolio and a few words on why you're right for the role.
To be fair... the price was artificially kept at $0.05 from when the subway system was opened in 1904 until some point in the 50's - which in the process helped drive the private operators of the system out of business.
Lore re-imagined what a class should look like online. We give instructors and students amazingly designed tools to manage their courses – calendaring, file management – and we make it unbelievably easy to interact with one another.
Lore is looking for a super-sharp, ambitious engineer who’s able to work across the stack. We’re a passionate team building the world’s largest learning community. You’re a badass coder who loves understanding the whole stack, and jumps on anything – from simple CSS to API performance. Together we will make education more relevant, engaging, and accessible.
Everyone at Lore is an artist – from customer service to engineering to user interface design. Changing the way people learn is no small task. To make it happen we need the most creative, dedicated, and detail-minded people on the planet.
Lore is built primarily in Python (using Flask) and CoffeeScript. Along the way, we also use MySQL, Redis, node.js, SASS and Compass.
Building the best experience for learning opens up a number of interesting technical challenges — to make it immersive, you want see interactions as they happens, and not later.
As a note, we're also hiring growth product hackers and JavaScript engineers.
If you're interested, shoot us an email at tech-jobs@lore.com, with information about yourself, why you're interested, and links to any work/code you can show off.
You can also find more about us and our open positions on our jobs page (http://lore.com/jobs/)
Lore re-imagined what a class should look like online. We give instructors and students amazingly designed tools to manage their courses – calendaring, file management – and we make it unbelievably easy to interact with one another.
Lore is looking for a super-sharp, ambitious engineer who’s able to work across the stack. We’re a passionate team building the world’s largest learning community. You’re a badass coder who loves understanding the whole stack, and jumps on anything – from simple CSS to API performance. Together we will make education more relevant, engaging, and accessible.
Everyone at Lore is an artist – from customer service to engineering to user interface design. Changing the way people learn is no small task. To make it happen we need the most creative, dedicated, and detail-minded people on the planet.
Lore is built primarily in Python (using Flask) and CoffeeScript. Along the way, we also use MySQL, Redis, node.js, SASS and Compass.
Building the best experience for learning opens up a number of interesting technical challenges — to make it immersive, you want see interactions as they happens, and not later.
As a note, we're also hiring growth product hackers and JavaScript engineers.
If you're interested, shoot us an email at tech-jobs@lore.com, with information about yourself, why you're interested, and links to any work/code you can show off.
You can also find more about us and our open positions on our jobs page (http://lore.com/jobs/),
Coursekit is looking for more engineers to help bring the best possible online experience to education. If you've ever been forced to use a crappy piece of software because your teacher (or worse, your school) demanded it, you know the pain we're trying to solve. We launched our product for university courses recently, and the reaction has been awesome. (http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665657/coursekit-aims-to-overha...)
We are a small and young team, but we are well-funded and growing. We work mostly in/with Coffeescript, Python, node.js, Redis, and MySQL. We don't care whether you have tons of experience with these technologies, but if you're smart and learn fast, we'd love to talk.
We're also looking for a Front-end Engineer, who would be able to help set a standard for our HTML/CSS and help us build awesome experiences for students and teachers.
New York, NY
Coursekit (http://coursekit.com/) is trying to bring social networking to education, and we want you to help build it.
We're looking for an engineer who is excited about joining a young team that's shaking up how education works. We always try using the best tool for the job. For now, we use CoffeeScript, Python, Node.js, Redis, as well as a still-unreleased CoffeeScript framework. If working with these technologies excites you, talk to us. We're very detail-focused, and are especially looking for someone who loves working with front-end code (heavy Javascript/Coffeescript, as well as HTML/CSS) to create beautiful interactions/pages.
