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The website mentions extracting "308,745,538 observations" (21 GB in size) and transforming it to some custom CSV files, for processing via Java. I don't see any of the Java code on GitHub.

...he mentions use of a summary file, "SF1", and there's some kind of PDF here:

--> http://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html#y2010tecdoc

--> http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/doc/sf1.pdf

It's more or less, a user manual for roughly 300 other tables, but where are they? Is the actual census data itself available freely, in detail?

I think this is it:

--> http://www2.census.gov/census_2010/04-Summary_File_1/

New York, as an example:

--> http://www2.census.gov/census_2010/04-Summary_File_1/New_Yor...

--> http://www2.census.gov/census_2010/04-Summary_File_1/New_Yor...

Is this the original, actual source data?



I have some admittedly old Python code to work with Census data here: https://github.com/peterlandry/django-census

The small talk I gave introducing python geeks to census data is here: http://files.meetup.com/3119472/census%20data%20for%20python...




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