Census Reporter is a tool that helps journalists, innovators, and students explore census data. The Census Reporter is a great way to get detailed information about demographics, income, health insurance coverage, poverty, and even commute times. The apps is powered by the American Community Survey which gathers detailed information about community areas. Joe Germuska sat down with Christopher Whitaker to give a demo of the tool and tell us more about it.
Here’s Germuska explaining what Census Reporter is.
Census Reporter is a Knight News Challenge-funded project to make it easier for journalists to write stories using information from the U.S. Census Bureau. The fiscal agent for the app is the Investigative Reporters and Editors. IRE is a non-profit organization that’s dedicated to improving the quality of investigative reporting. Germuska explains how the project came about:
Using Census Reporter is simple as Germuska shows below:
If you have more questions about the tool, you can go to their help page or tweet them at @CensusReporter.
