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Keep business survey data close to code changes

Give business-analysis commits a timely data retrieval, so relevant ABS results are ready for review with the change.

Trigger

Commit Event

Triggered when a new commit is pushed to a repository.

Action

Get American Business Survey

Tool to retrieve annual business survey (abs) data for a specified year and endpoint.

Why this helps

Teams can update reporting code without refreshing the business survey data needed to inspect the result.

  • Prompts an ABS retrieval at a repository change point.
  • Helps reviewers inspect business analysis alongside relevant survey data.
  • Cuts down on separate follow-up data requests.

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect GitHub and Census bureau once in the Notis portal.
  • 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and supply a name and prompt.
  • 3Tell Notis which commit changes should retrieve American Business Survey data, including the year and endpoint.
  • 4Pick the Commit Event trigger and choose where run reports go.
  • 5Test with one real commit related to business analysis.

Questions about this workflow

Can it determine the right ABS endpoint from a commit?

Only if the commit context or your prompt identifies the correct endpoint and year.

Does this compare survey results with earlier years?

It retrieves data for the specified year and endpoint. Any comparison baseline must be available in the provided context or requested separately.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link GitHub to Census bureau. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

GitHub triggers

Census bureau actions

Recurring trigger

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

TriggerScheduled

Get ACS 1-Year Estimates

Tool to retrieve 1-year american community survey (acs) estimates for a specified geography. use when you need the most recent annual acs data for a given area.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

TriggerInstant

Get ACS 5-Year Estimates

Tool to retrieve 5-year american community survey estimates for a specified year. use when detailed acs data by geography and variables is required.

ActionInstant

New Workflow Artifact Created

Triggers when a new workflow artifact is created in a GitHub repository. Monitors for newly created GitHub Actions workflow artifacts. Optionally filters by artifact name to restrict monitoring to specific artifacts.

TriggerPolling

Get American Business Survey

Tool to retrieve annual business survey (abs) data for a specified year and endpoint.

ActionInstant

Branch Changed

Triggers when a GitHub branch changes. Monitors a specific branch for: - New commits pushed (head commit SHA changes) - Protection status toggled (branch becomes protected or unprotected) - Protection settings changed, including: required status checks and their enforcement level, admin enforcement, required pull request reviews (dismiss stale reviews, code owner reviews, approving review count, last push approval), required linear history, force push allowance, deletion allowance, conversation resolution, branch locking, and fork syncing.

TriggerPolling

Get Community Resilience Estimates

Tool to retrieve community resilience estimates for a specified year. use after selecting variables and geography to get cre data for analysis.

ActionInstant

New Branch Created

Triggers when a new branch is created in a GitHub repository. Detects newly created branches. Deleted branches do not fire events.

TriggerPolling

Get County Business Patterns

Tool to retrieve county business patterns (cbp) data for a specified year. use when you need county-level business establishment and employment statistics filtered by industry and geography.

ActionInstant

Check Run Status / Conclusion Changed

Triggers when a specific GitHub check run changes its status or conclusion. Monitors a single check run for changes to: status (queued, in_progress, completed, etc.), conclusion (success, failure, neutral, cancelled, skipped, timed_out, action_required), started_at, and completed_at.

TriggerPolling

Get Decennial Census Data

Tool to retrieve decennial census data for a specified vintage and dataset. use when you need census variables for a given geography.

ActionInstant

Check Suite Status / Conclusion Changed

Triggers when a GitHub check suite changes its status or conclusion for a given ref. Monitors all check suites associated with a git reference (branch, tag, or commit SHA) for changes to status (queued, in_progress, completed, etc.) and conclusion (success, failure, neutral, cancelled, skipped, timed_out, action_required, startup_failure, stale). Optionally filters by GitHub App ID.

TriggerPolling

Get Population Estimates

Tool to retrieve population estimates program (pep) data for a specified vintage and dataset. use when you need population or demographic estimates for specific geographies.

ActionInstant

New Code Scanning Alert Created

Triggers when a new code scanning alert is created in a repository. Fires an event for each newly created code scanning alert detected in the configured repository. Alerts can be filtered by Git reference, scanning tool, state, and severity. The payload includes the alert number, rule details, tool information, state, severity, and the location of the most recent instance.

TriggerPolling

Get Variable Details

Tool to retrieve metadata for a specific variable in a census dataset for a given year. use when you need the label, concept, data type, attribute codes, and valid-value constraints.

ActionInstant

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