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Finding the Obamas In the 2000 Census

Posted by timothy on from the magnet-for-your-haystack dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This 'how-to' example of accessing demographic data from the U.S. Census 'American FactFinder' zooms down to the block level in Chicago to (possibly) find the Obama family in the year 2000."

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  1. Secret Service better get into their DeLoreans... by GameboyRMH · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...And go back in time to protect the President from time-travelling assassins. But while you're in the past, try not to change anyting. You can ask Obama for tips on that before you leave! *rimshot*

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  2. more up-to-date information below by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Barack Hussein Obama II
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
    Washington DC 20006

    hth.

  3. Better lookup Romney too by ThorGod · · Score: 2

    Since it's the season for Presidential runs.

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    1. Re:Better lookup Romney too by LordStormes · · Score: 5, Funny

      It would take a lot longer to look up Romney. You'd have to search all 5 or 6 of his houses.

    2. Re:Better lookup Romney too by osu-neko · · Score: 2

      It would take a lot longer to look up Romney. You'd have to search all 5 or 6 of his houses.

      Five or six? You don't know how many houses he has?

      That's okay, he's probably not sure either...

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  4. No need to ask for tips by arcite · · Score: 2

    Just buy a copy of baseball scores from the newspaper man. Oh wait...that wouldn't be much use in the future would it?

  5. silly editors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The census doesn't cover kenya..

    1. Re:silly editors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      ...or other foreign nations like Hawaii.

    2. Re:silly editors by Megane · · Score: 2

      But at least it does cover all 57 states.

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  6. Finding People In 2000 by guttentag · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In 2000 I had several coworkers who moved out of their apartments and into their cubicles. They reasoned that they spent so much time there anyway, and got free high speed internet, it didn't make sense to pay for rent, gas, and utilities just to spend 8-10 hours a week in traffic. The company quietly encouraged it too, moving everyone to a building that had shower facilities in the restroom and allowed them to install curtains and inflatable doors on their cubicles.

    I wonder if the census counted them as living in our office building, or if it just skipped them entirely. I suspect it skipped them, because the census takers wouldn't have come to our office park and the company wouldn't want documentation that it violated zoning laws. Still it's fun to think that 60 years from now their grandchildren might find them listed as "Mr. H Potter, the sleeping bag under the desk, cubicle 5, row 8, 2nd floor, building 9," etc. Then again, they were engineers whose 20s and 30s were spent reading slashdot and literally living in their cubicles... they probably didn't have kids.