Variable Selection

[NJTuley]

When talking with Logan at CitySDK, they said they have no way for a program to retrieve the data variables to use in census request. We need to figure out how we are going to put variables into our program, if we want to write a script to do this for us (if we can) or if we want to manually select which variables to use

[NJTuley]

Hey guys, I was wondering if I could get your thoughts on this, it is going to impact the work I am doing with the sidebar, because if we decide to stay with a limited number of variables because of having to hardcode them in, then I think that the reworking of the sidebar could be done better, as the demographic information space (bottom half of the sidebar page) could be used for something else (idk what, we could talk about that again). If we do find a way to get a lot of variables into the sidebars (whether through our own script if we can do that, or if we want to just hardcode a bunch of variables in). Either way, I need to know which variables we are going to be using, and any ideas on how we can retrieve the variable names and such (harcode/script/etc.) to put into out program?

[mezerotm]

I am leaning toward hardcoding, (I am hoping no one ever hears me say that ever again)

[NJTuley]

A consideration for hardcoding is that we will also have to hand-select which variables we want to use.