@stdlib/datasets-ssa-us-births-2000-2014/lib/main.js

US birth data from 2000 to 2014, as provided by the Social Security Administration.

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'use strict';

// MODULES //

var resolve = require( 'path' ).resolve;
var readJSON = require( '@stdlib/fs-read-json' ).sync;


// VARIABLES //

var fpath = resolve( __dirname, '..', 'data', 'data.json' );
var opts = {
	'encoding': 'utf8'
};


// MAIN //

/**
* Returns US birth data from 2000 to 2014, as provided by the Social Security Administration.
*
* ## Notes
*
* -   This function synchronously reads data from disk for each invocation. Such behavior is intentional and so is the avoidance of `require`. We assume that invocations are infrequent, and we want to avoid the `require` cache. This means that we allow data to be garbage collected and a user is responsible for explicitly caching data.
*
* @throws {Error} unable to read data
* @returns {ObjectArray} birth data
*
* @example
* var data = dataset();
* // returns [ {...}, ... ]
*/
function dataset() {
	var data = readJSON( fpath, opts );
	if ( data instanceof Error ) {
		throw data;
	}
	return data;
}


// EXPORTS //

module.exports = dataset;