Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

2018-11-18

Added

Logging for the fetch process and reporting merge statistics
Creates a CensusDataStore class to handle all calls to the Census API. All calls are logged at the debug level so progress can be seen. All data fetches will retry again in two minutes (up to 10 times) if there are any issues with the connection of availability of the Census API.
Deploys a log file to S3 after demographics are built for a geography

Changed

create_00_weights.py has been adjusted so appropriate weights are calculated for counts and rates

2018-11-10

Added

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Changed

Save raw files fetched from census API
Fetch census data for block group using tract GEOID instead of county GEOID. The tract number is needed in the heirarchy for the Census API: https://api.census.gov/data/2010/sf1/geography.html