Am I the only user having chronic problems with data.census.gov?
After nearly a year of constant attempts at use and self-training, my personal experience
is that
data.census.gov is capricious, inconsistent, and inadequate. The potential is
(probably) there but to my view it's not yet ready for prime time - yet it is the only
way you can access the 2018 ACS. American Factfinder is going away in a matter of months,
so soon the shaky and unstable
data.census.gov system will be all that we have.
Perhaps there's some magic bullet I have yet to find. Or an alternative that provides
the professional reliability the data community needs. API?
Can anybody in the data community offer insights?
Thanks!
Jonathan Lupton AICP
Senior Planner - Publications
Metroplan
Little Rock AR