How to use the GENESIS API

This repo contains a simple demo of using the GENESIS API (RESTful/JSON) in Python. To run it on your machine, you'll need create an account for the GENESIS platform and add your credentials to a .env file in the root directory of this project (see .env.example).

Jupyter notebook

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This demo was part of a workshop given at the 2023 SciCAR conference.

Additional workshop resources:

• Slides (in German)
• Additional example using a choropleth map (Observable notebook)
• Official GENESIS API documentation (in German)

Alternative tools for accessing GENESIS APIs:

• Swagger: https://www.regionalstatistik.de/genesisws/swagger-ui/
• GENESIS for R: https://github.com/CorrelAid/restatis
• GENESIS for Python: https://github.com/CorrelAid/pystatis