We'd like to create a very simple JS-driven website where a user puts in their address in Los Angeles county and we tell them a bunch of cool things about their neighborhood ("the average income in your neighborhood is $XXXX... other neighborhoods of Los Angeles at a similar income level are A, B, C" - or "Here are some tweets/ from your neighborhood" - or "Here's the name of your congressional rep and some facts about them"). We can assemble all this information by using the many available APIs and datasets - US Census, City of LA, Google Civic Data, etc.
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For census data I’m a big fan of Census Reporter, which has embeddable charts and graphs for various geographies: http://censusreporter.org/profiles/16000US0644000-los-angeles-ca/
As far as congressional and state reps, the Sunlight foundation also has great information available through an API or via bulk download. I used one of their downloads to build this: http://projects.scpr.org/static/applications/find-my-rep/#legislators/house/california/16539-judy-chu