Developer(s) Datawheel Available in English | License Affero GPL | |
Original author(s) 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(Text) CC BY-SA