This project examines median earnings in New York counties over the last 12 months for the population 16 years and older who had any earnings.
The input file is cb_2019_us_county_500k.zip - a shapefile of US counties. The remaining data will be obtained from the Census via its API.
There are five deliverables: a script called earnings.py that requests data from the Census, saves a histogram of it in earnings_hist.png, joins it to a set of county polygons for New York counties, and writes out the result as a geopackage file called counties.gpkg; a QGIS project file called earnings_map.qgz; and a PNG file called earnings_map.png that will be a heat map of median earnings.