Data & analytics · Connects with an API key

An AI teammate for Census Bureau.

Connect Census Bureau and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 8 Census Bureau actions, from looking things up to making changes. Ask from iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack or the app, and keep it read-only if you only want it to look.

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300 free credits. No card. Read-only if you want.

Things to ask about Census Bureau
  • What changed in Census Bureau this week compared with last week?
  • Pull these numbers from Census Bureau into a sheet and chart them.
  • Text me if the daily figure in Census Bureau drops by more than 20%.
  • Build me a Monday summary from Census Bureau.
Text it, Slack it, or type it in the app. Swap in your own details.
What Cicada can do in Census Bureau

8 Census Bureau actions, picked for what you ask.

About Census Bureau: The Census Bureau Data API provides developers with access to a wide range of statistical data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau, facilitating integration into applications and data visualizations.

Reads

8 in all · always allowed
  • Get Variable Details
    Retrieve metadata for a specific variable in a census dataset for a given year.
  • Get ACS 1-Year Estimates
    Retrieve 1-year american community survey (acs) estimates for a specified geography.
  • Get ACS 5-Year Estimates
    Retrieve 5-year american community survey estimates for a specified year.
  • Get Population Estimates
    Retrieve population estimates program (pep) data for a specified vintage and dataset.
  • Get Decennial Census Data
    Retrieve decennial census data for a specified vintage and dataset.
  • Get American Business Survey
    Retrieve annual business survey (abs) data for a specified year and endpoint.
  • Get County Business Patterns
    Retrieve county business patterns (cbp) data for a specified year.
  • Get Community Resilience Estimates
    Retrieve community resilience estimates for a specified year.

Changes

0 in all · off when Census Bureau is read-only

None in this app.

Showing 8 of 8. Your agent can use every one of them; you don't pick them, you ask for the outcome.

How it works

Connected in a minute. In your control after that.

  1. Connect Census Bureau

    Open Connections, find Census Bureau and paste an API key from your Census Bureau account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

  2. Choose what it may do

    Full, Ask first or Read-only, for the whole workspace. Share Census Bureau with the team, or keep it under each person's own login.

  3. Ask from anywhere

    Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, message it in Slack or the app, or put a Census Bureau job on a schedule: every morning, every Friday.

Works with your other tools

Census Bureau, together with the rest of your stack.

Ask for an outcome that spans apps and your agent pulls from each one, cross-checks them and sends back one answer.

Questions

Census Bureau and Cicada, answered.

Does Cicada integrate with Census Bureau?

Yes. Census Bureau is one of the 888 apps with a page here, and it connects with an API key. Once it's connected, every agent in your workspace can use it from any channel you talk to them on.

How do I connect Census Bureau?

Open Connections, find Census Bureau and paste an API key from your Census Bureau account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

What can Cicada do in Census Bureau?

8 actions: 8 that read from Census Bureau and 0 that change things in it, for example get variable details, get acs 1-year estimates, get acs 5-year estimates. It picks the right ones for what you ask and chains them with your other apps.

Can I stop Cicada changing things in Census Bureau?

Yes. In Connections, set Census Bureau to Read-only and no agent in your workspace can create, change or delete anything in it; it can still read. Ask first lets it act but makes it check with you before each change.

Can I ask about Census Bureau from my phone?

Yes. Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, or message it in Slack or the app. It answers in the same thread, and it can run Census Bureau jobs on a schedule, like every morning at 8.

Is my Census Bureau data safe?

Your Census Bureau login or key is stored on the server and never appears in a conversation. Disconnecting removes it. Every action an agent takes is in your activity log, and your data isn't used to train models.

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