Slightly OT, but UK census data can also be accessed by a web API. Some details are at http://www.programmableweb.com/api/office-for-national-stati....
The bad news is that it appears to be SOAP-based.
The US Census now has an API
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Re: The US Census now has an API
#42> The response for all queries is formatted as a two dimensional JSON array where the first row provides column names and subsequent rows provide data values. Hmmm... looking at the example of this I can't help but think there has got to be a better way. This is more just a standard CSV (first row is header, all other rows are data). Using JSON for data formatted as such is kind of a waste of JSON. If you pass that e…
I can't edit my original post anymore so I'll reply to myself. Having had some time to think about this I've changed my mind slightly. It seems that if you are getting various datesets with various unknown field names, you really don't have any other way to programmatically know what keys you would pull. Having the first row give the fields might make processing know datasets wonky, it is the unknown datasets that need the most help. I take back my original criticism. Thanks for all the insight.