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Re:Data USA: explore, map, compare, and download U.S. data by noelwelsh on Sunday February 16, 2020 @06:24AM (#22341068)
I'm finding this data fascinating. For example, here is the "Software developers":

https://datausa.io/profile/soc/software-developers-applicati...

A few points that struck me:

- income is a lot more evenly distributed than the US average.

- "Video tape & disk rental" is by far the highest paying sector. I guess that is all down to Netflix? "Taxi and limousine service" is in 4th place. That's Uber and Lyft?

Re:Data USA: explore, map, compare, and download U.S. data by joncrane on Sunday February 16, 2020 @09:04AM (#22341574)
Good eye. I have heard that Netflix pays particularly well, so that would make sense. Also I suppose if you worked on Hulu or any other online streaming platform it wouldn't fall in the same category so I wonder what other companies would fall under that category.

Finally, how do they derive those categories? NAICS codes?

Re:Data USA: explore, map, compare, and download U.S. data by maxerickson on Sunday February 16, 2020 @09:23AM (#22341655)
It looks like BLS categories (they list BLS as a source too):

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#15-0000

Re:Data USA: explore, map, compare, and download U.S. data by OldHand2018 on Sunday February 16, 2020 @12:13PM (#22342502)
FYI, this is not a USA government web site, it is run by Deloitte and is republishing public domain US government data under an AGPLv3 license.
Re:Data USA: explore, map, compare, and download U.S. data by jazzido on Sunday February 16, 2020 @03:20PM (#22343540)
There's also https://datachile.io, a sister site built by the same team
Re:Data USA: explore, map, compare, and download U.S. data by azemetre on Sunday February 16, 2020 @12:02PM (#22342442)
Is it possible to get some of the data for personal projects? I'm not seeing and option to get data by csv (or anything really).

Curious to know if it's possible. I'm learning more about data viz this year and areas where you can get data easily is a God send.

Re:Data USA: explore, map, compare, and download U.S. data by objectivetruth on Sunday February 16, 2020 @12:13PM (#22342503)
All of the data sets are listed here:

https://datausa.io/about/datasets/

You should probably also check out the federal data catalog at:

https://data.gov

Re:Data USA: explore, map, compare, and download U.S. data by spectramax on Sunday February 16, 2020 @11:28AM (#22342250)
The site loads super fast - definitely a plus these days.
Re:Data USA: explore, map, compare, and download U.S. data by akudha on Sunday February 16, 2020 @11:01AM (#22342098)
Is there any site like this for environment related data - pollution, air quality, water quality etc?
Re:Data USA: explore, map, compare, and download U.S. data by kthejoker2 on Sunday February 16, 2020 @11:52AM (#22342379)
It's not as nice as this, but Climate.gov has decent data

https://www.climate.gov/maps-data/datasets

Re:Data USA: explore, map, compare, and download U.S. data by kthejoker2 on Sunday February 16, 2020 @11:53AM (#22342386)
And AirNow is the EPA's site, there are datasets and real time APIs

https://www.airnow.gov/