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		awaythrow on June 7, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The US Census now has an API Excellent. Much easier than requesting API keys and parsing JSON. But that's just my opinion. CSV is beautiful. Simple and easy to manipulate into some other format if desired.

fennecfoxen on June 7, 2012 [–]

CSV is beautiful - for numbers. When you invoke strings, and quoting, and whatnot, it goes downhill fast. :)

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