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...]
Go Philly! GIS helps improve access to healthy food in the city
Yesterday's NY Times had an opinion piece praising Philadelphia's efforts in recent years to improve access to healthy food for its most disadvantaged neighborhoods and citizens. In 'Go Philly!', Mark Bittman describes the collaborative efforts of Philadelphia municipal government, the Commonwealth of PA and a whole host of local non-profits (including my former employer, the … [Read more...]
How big is it really?
Back in December I posted about an NPR story about map scale. I got so excited about the baseball on the moon map that I neglected to point out the other really interesting link from the story - to the BBC Dimensions website. Dimensions (or, 'howbigisitreally') has a tool that lets you plug in any zip code or location and then choose from a list of events, places or things … [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...]