The website for The Atlantic magazine has an interesting new map graphic visualizing the ways in which income inequality has fractured the nation over the past 30 years. The graphic breaks the nation into 12 different 'states' - monied burbs, minority central, military bastions, evangelical epicenters, tractor country, campuses and careers, immigration nation, industrial … [Read more...]
Mapping America block by block
The front page of yesterday's New York Times featured maps and stories based on recently-released data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey. As described by the team at Social Explorer, "the latest [American Community Survey] figures are the single largest data release in the Census Bureau’s history, providing a look for the first time since 2000 at a variety … [Read more...]
What if the largest countries had the biggest populations?
"What if the world were rearranged so that the inhabitants of the country with the largest population would move to the country with the largest area? And the second-largest population would migrate to the second-largest country, and so on?" An interesting new map featured on the Strange Maps blog addresses this question. … [Read more...]