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Data USA

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Developer(s)
  
Datawheel

Available in
  
English

Written in
  
Python

License
  
Affero GPL

Original author(s)
  
Deloitte, MIT Media Lab – Macro Connections, Datawheel

Initial release
  
4 April 2016 (2016-04-04)

Data USA is a free platform that allows users to collect, analyze, and visualize shared U.S. government data. Launched on April 4, 2016, Data USA is the product of an ongoing partnership between Deloitte, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Macro Connections Group, and Datawheel.

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Architecture

Data USA utilizes open data from seven data sources, cleaned and standardized into a PostgreSQL database, accessible via a public API. The back-end of the site is driven by the python framework, Flask.

Visualizations

The visualizations found on Data USA are created in JavaScript using a combination of D3 and D3plus JavaScript libraries.

References

Data USA Wikipedia