NYC Population FactFinder 2020
Population FactFinder allows you to easily define study areas — by selecting Census Tracts, Census Blocks, Neighborhood Tabulation Areas (NTAs), Community Districts, and more — to produce detailed population profiles.
Requirements
You will need the following things properly installed on your computer.
(You can use NVM to manage node versions on your computer)
Local development
- Clone this repo
https://github.com/NYCPlanning/labs-nyc-factfinder.git - Install Dependencies
yarn - Start the server
yarn run start- If running labs-factfinder-api and labs-layers-api locally, instead start the server with
yarn run local-api
- If running labs-factfinder-api and labs-layers-api locally, instead start the server with
Architecture
Primary views:
- Selection - Allows the user to create a selection of geometries to view census/ACS data about.
- Explorer - Shows census/ACS data tables and charts for the selected geometries.
Backend services
- factfinder-api - An express api that handles search AND maps collections of selected geoids to an integer. Useful for persisting selections across browser sessions (also makes reports shareable)
Contact us
You can find us on Twitter at @nycplanninglabs, or comment on issues and we'll follow up as soon as we can. If you'd like to send an email, use [email protected]