Census Newsroom Aide

What it does

Census Newsroom Aide helps journalists quickly and easily query, collect, analyze and visualize data from the U.S. Census Bureau. This Gemini powered tool lets reporters ask simple population-related questions and get the exact data needed to solve them, as well as a preliminary visualization and analysis. Leveraging the Gemini API’s function calling capabilities with the U.S. Census Bureau’s API ensures the answers provided are always accurate. This newsroom aide supports journalists in their reporting, helps them identify data-driven, visual story pitches, and speeds up their production process for these complex stories.
Although we are focused on the U.S. Census for this particular project, our long term aim is to expand its functionalities to other countries and to even narrower and more specific queries. We also hope to expand to other structured datasets that could help reporters, such as elections or climate data.