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Turn a business research question into an ABS lookup

When your question calls for American Business Survey data, describe the research need in Telegram and retrieve the relevant annual endpoint data.

Trigger

New Message Received

Triggered when your bot receives a new message in a private chat, group, or supergroup. To receive every message in a group, Privacy Mode must be disabled for the bot in BotFather.

Action

Get American Business Survey

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

Why this helps

Founders can abandon a research question when they need to work out which business survey source to query.

  • Keep a business survey request attached to its discussion.
  • Retrieve annual ABS data for a specified endpoint.
  • Reduce the friction of starting a data lookup.

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Telegram and Census bureau to Notis once in the portal.
  • 2Create an automation from the portal or ask Notis to handle ABS research requests from Telegram.
  • 3In a single plain-language prompt, tell Notis how to identify the requested year and endpoint and retrieve ABS data.
  • 4Pick New Message Received and choose where run reports should go.
  • 5Test with a concrete business survey question and verify the endpoint.

Questions about this workflow

What details should I include?

State the business survey question and, when known, the year and endpoint you need. Notis can use those details for the lookup.

Will this action retrieve every type of Census business data?

It retrieves American Business Survey data for a specified year and endpoint. Other business questions may fit a different Census bureau action.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

Supported Triggers and Actions

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

Telegram 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 Message Received

Triggered when your bot receives a new message in a private chat, group, or supergroup. To receive every message in a group, Privacy Mode must be disabled for the bot in BotFather.

TriggerInstant

Get American Business Survey

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

ActionInstant

New Channel Post

Triggered when a new post is published to a channel where your bot is an administrator.

TriggerInstant

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

Callback Query Received

Triggered when a user taps an inline keyboard button attached to one of your bot's messages.

TriggerInstant

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

Message Edited

Triggered when a message in a chat your bot can see is edited by its sender.

TriggerInstant

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

New Chat Member

Triggered when a new member joins a group or supergroup the bot belongs to, including when the bot itself is added.

TriggerInstant

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

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

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

Telegram and Census bureau, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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