U.S. Census Bureau Offers Public API for Data Apps by Nick Kolakowski.
From the post:
For any software developers with an urge to play around with demographic or socio-economic data: the U.S. Census Bureau has launched an API for Web and mobile apps that can slice that statistical information in all sorts of nifty ways.
The API draws data from two sets: the 2010 Census (statistics include population, age, sex, and race) and the 2006-2010 American Community Survey (offers information on education, income, occupation, commuting, and more). In theory, developers could use those datasets to analyze housing prices for a particular neighborhood, or gain insights into a city’s employment cycles.
The APIs include no information that could identify an individual. (emphasis added)
Suppose it should say: “Some assembly required.”
Similar resources at Data.gov and Google Public Data Explorer.
I first saw this at: Dashboard Insight.