Census preps open data site for 2020 information -- GCN

"As the Census Bureau prepares for the 2020 population count, it's also readying its data.census.gov platform to make accessing the collected census data easier.

The impetus for the new site came out of making data available to the public as soon as possible.  The consensus among data analysts is that they spend 80 percent of their time collecting data.  Census wants to help ease that pain point by putting interactive datasets online.

The data.census.gov site is the preview environment for a single census data dissemination platform. The data on the site is currently test data that is used for evaluating the platform."