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A Twitter bot by FiveThirtyEight
Called censusAmericans, it tweets short biographies of Americans based on data they provided to the U.S. Census Bureau between 2009 and 2013. Using a small Python program, the bot reconstitutes numbers and codes from the data into mini-narratives. Once an hour, it turns a row of data into a real person..
| Organization Type: | Media organization |
|---|---|
| Status: | Active |
| Parent Organization: | FiveThirtyEight Politics |
| Last Modified: | 3/23/2026 |
| Added on: | 5/9/2022 |
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Civic Tech Field Guide
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