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		_tggb on July 29, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US Census API now available Why should I have to install Postgres to be able to play around with data? This is one less step to think about.

yummyfajitas on July 29, 2012 [–]

As I pointed out in my first comment, you can also just load it with pandas/excel/etc. I brought up postgres for the specific case of "queries on-demand on your web server or mobile app".

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