Latest stable release prior to migration to DialogFlow AI from deprecated wit.ai

due to FB locking down wit.ai to FB messenger built-in NLP.

see wit.ai announcement for more info:

https://wit.ai/blog/2017/07/27/sunsetting-stories

Added Americans Bot landing page and alpha Slack bot integration

new Americans bot home page: https://americans.herokuapp.com/

Try Add to Slack install button from there to add it to your slackers team chats.

Use /americans slack command once installed to query USA population census data for now.

Race stats, incomes, housing and other nifty American Community Survey (ACS) data sets will be hooked up in the next release next week.

Added Support for City/Town population data queries

• added loading of 40+K places that include all US cities and small towns from this data set:

https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/codes/place.html

• wired getPopulation to return pop data stats for all US places

Americans Bot v.1.0.1 - First release with support for USA, states, and counties population data queries

Population data is supplied from census.gov Population Estimates API data service:

http://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/popest-popproj/popest.html

Americans Bot Facebook home page for testing:

https://www.facebook.com/Americans-1836666999901817

Supported Messenger chat bot queries:

What is the population of [USA/{state}/{county}]?

Click on Send Message or Messages to test Messenger chat bot interface.