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As a developer, I want to request data from both the ACS5 and the ACS1 year data sets.

As a developer, I want to make requests through the SDK using JSON.

As a first-time home buyer, I want to find all kinds of assistance available, through grants, low-cost loans, free counseling or public resource centers, so that I can buy my first home.

As a developer, I want to retrieve geographical data in GeoJSON.

The Issue reporting API / Open311 API enables sending service requests to the city’s feedback system. It can be used to report for example broken street signs, potholes, etc. It can be used for reporting on other issues as well.
http://www.citysdk.eu/citysdk-toolkit/using-the-apis/open311-api/

User sends a FIPS code and an entity type. In return, the service provides the FIPS codes and geometries for all the entities of the entity type requested within the FIPS code received. For Places, some of the entities returned may cross the FIPS code's boundary.

Specific case of #21

This is a research task to talk to LEHD regarding custom geometry and acquiring Census data within that boundary.

Currently the module supports:

State, County, Tract, Block Group

But other API's support more Geographies/less geographies. For instance, ACS1 does not support tracts but does support Metropolitan areas.

Improve the visibility of the SDK/API via SEO

This demonstration has already been created using Census Reporter and BLS data. It was a winner of the District Data Labs Incubator program http://dew.herokuapp.com

As a developer, I don't want to use zip codes to access Census data rather than FIPs codes.

The state -> capital coordinate dictionary has a decimal transposition for DC that needs to be fixed.

As a home buyer moving to a new area, I want to find all the properly licensed agents and brokers, so that I can safely and objectively choose an agent to help me find my new home.

There are locally and federally supported affordable housing but often these data sets are remote from each other. How do we integrate local and federally affordable housing for city/county or state in one API? Currently users ('those looking for affordable housing') go to numerous remote websites to find resources when they could be in one thread.

As per someone's suggestion, I'm adding an request for using the SDKs geo call to filter a second (mashed up) point-based (series of lat / longs) data set. For example:

I have a bunch of locations of crimes of a certain sort
I call the SDK to dump out block-groups for my county
I want the block groups to include: population, income and age

Hereby, I want:
use case # 1: find crimes in areas with income > $x
use case # 2: show crimes per capita for each block group (e.g., in info window on a map)
use case # 3: tally up the total crimes in each block group to find correlations between crime and income and/or age

note: this is just a hypothetical... any such point-data filtering by census geo + census data mashup is implied...

As a developer, I want to retrieve geographical data in KML.

When creating demos, use a variety of different libraries to demonstrate how to use the SDK.

i.e.: Google Maps, Leaflet, etc. . .

http://uscensusbureau.github.io/citysdk/functions.html

looks like these would be covered by a mixture of city, state, federal, and company data sets / APIs?

Rename the new GeoJSON files to follow the convention.

Update the GeoRequest in the Census module to use the sublevel requests.

Heat Seek NYC would like to add city-level demographic data to our 'coldmap' visualization (developed in d3.js). The coldmap, which shows number of heating complaints per zip code, can be found here: http://heatseeknyc.com/coldmap

One interesting metric to include with the coldmap visualization would be the average income for a given household/zip code. Additional data that would be great to show next to housing temperature data - based on functions listed at https://uscensusbureau.github.io/citysdk/functions.html - would be avg_age(), housing_avail(), and job_stats()

Also, Heat Seek NYC will be adding other visualizations based on the data that our temperature sensors collect. Seeing demographic data next to this data will also be useful for analytics, exploration and ultimately 'telling a story' through the use of visualizations.

Create a demo using bing maps

(feedback from Chief Innovation Officer of Montgomery County, Dan Hoffman) Building permit data is one of the most cross-cutting local datasets utilized across multiple cities nationwide.

http://ryanpitts.com/presentations/nicar-2014/responsive-charts/#/

Import GeoJSON for the starter cities at the block group resolution:

• New York City
• Chicago
• Fargo
• San Francisco
• Los Angeles
• Austin

Utilizing Census data, can we better identify communities of interest related to the Every Kid in a Park Initiative? Can we frame this as a session for the upcoming myAmerica Developer Summit? See http://openglobe.github.io/myamerica-devsummit/#sessions

Per Dept of Labor SME: O_NET, CareerOneStop and BLS APIs are routinely integrated into consumer apps. I would register a CitySDK account for access to O_NET and CareerOneStop, it takes a day or two to get access approved. When it comes to the raw data, most of the BLS data is download-able.

As a developer, I want to use a shape file instead of FIPS codes.

Define the protocol for how a developer makes calls (via JSON re: #12)

http://census.codeforamerica.org/

Add support for interactive documentation

We need to refactor the Census API into its own module, out of the CitySDK core.

Municipalities across jurisidictions (City, County, School District, etc.) often own land that could be developed for affordable housing or other social service purposes but they do not know what land they have nor what other juridictions may have. Having this information visualized geographically would help juridictions work together on shared goals around creating affordable housing.

User sends a lon/lat coordinate and an entity type (limited to state, county, place (covers cities), tract, and block group). In return, the service provides the FIPS code and geometry of the entity containing the point received. The entity is of the entity type requested.

As a developer, I want to define a scope boundary which would allow a user to batch request variables & geographies within by a lat/long.

E.g., "I want all the block-groups(geo resolution) within this(lat/long) county(geo scope)"

As a developer, I want to use lat/lng co-ordinates instead of FIPs codes.

(feedback from Chief Innovation Officer of Montgomery County, Dan Hoffman) Socrata is commonly used to manage open data platforms for cities and should work easily with City SDK.

For example, NYC 311 data compared with census data

As a developer, I want to use batches of lats/lngs instead of FIPS codes.
(Batch version of #9)

Asks you to submit user stories, but you have to hunt for the link

As a developer, I want to be able to request demographic data by an alias instead of a specific variable code.

For now, we need to support the following:

• income
• poverty
• age