Better Know Your Area

Hi @lamaalrajih! A little background on why I made this: I think there is so much super interesting (and very granular) data about the American public, but it's often overwhelming to navigate and sift through and challenging to put in the proper context. My goal is simply to make it easier for people to learn about places they care about and showcase some neat, public data (i.e., average commute time to work or % of people who work from home) and hopefully encourage users to explore further. All data comes from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (2016 5-year estimates), their latest release. And I plan to refresh the data as newer releases are published. One additional thing to note: all of the code that powers Better Know Your Area is open source. Here's a link to the React app (https://github.com/brendansudol/...) and here's how the data is collected and cleaned (https://github.com/brendansudol/...)

@brensudol awesome! I tried it out, and would love to see data on cities down the line for even more accurate data. Thanks for sharing!

@brensudol I love the approach behind the project and how the data is presented. Congrats!

Thanks @taylorzorman!! And completely agree! That's next on the roadmap: adding ability to select and compare multiple counties, and adding ability to view info by other geo granularities, like zip codes :)