Now that I’ve learned all of the advantages data processing with Python, I think my next adventure is going to be to figure out how to directly query the various Census databases directly rather than downloading the individual zip files from then editing and processing them in LibreOffice Calc. I’d much rather try to automate as much of this as possible so I can do new concepts for the blog, importing and mapping even more data.

It sure would be nice to able to get full census tables for a county with a few lines of code and have them dumped into a CSV file for a chart or to link to a map.