ACS year parameter made user-specified #45
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In the Starter object, I created a year variable which corresponds to the ACS year data for the 5-year estimates dataset. The default value is 2016 which is the latest dataset (2011-2016). The 'acsyear' parameter is saved as an object variable (self.acsyear). It is used in the block group and tract query functions.
Changed 'census.acs.get()' by 'census.acs5.get()' in the '_query' function. This specification is reccomended in the census package documentation. https://github.com/datamade/census/blob/master/census/core.py#L435-L438
Added parenthesis in a print function in the demo for it to be Python 3 compatible.