Getting Census Data in 5 Easy Steps

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Back in 2016, while working on a project with the city of Cincinnati to help optimize their emergency medical services, my team realized we needed to get detailed census data about the city. We needed measurements such as population per zip code broken down by age, race, gender, etc.

And it was really hard to get. I distinctly recall this process requiring a great deal of research, data scraping, and…