The Covid Demographics Explorer is a Python app I wrote that lets users explore how American counties have changed since Covid-19. Try the app here, and explore the code here.
The app builds a dataset of demographic data using the Census Bureau’s API. It uses Streamlit to let users explore that data with a simple front end.
I spoke about this project at the San Francisco Python Meetup in June 2024. You can view a recording of that talk below.
Additional Information
My talk at the San Francisco Python Meetup focused primarily on how the app uses Streamlit. The following blog posts discuss other aspects of the project:
- New Release: Covid Demographics Explorer v2 discusses the addition of the Swarm plot as well as improvements to the codebase.
- Creating Time Series Data from the American Community Survey (ACS) explains how the dataset is generated.
- Visualizing the Impact of Covid-19 on US Counties discusses the choice to use counties as the geographic unit for this project.
- Building a Census Explorer in Python: Part 1 explains the technology choices made at the start of the project.
