DATALOPNIK

"doodon2whls" (doodon2whls) 09/05/2013 at 11:01 • Filed to: 2010 CENSUS, DATALOPNIK, GIS

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Some smart peeps @ the University of Virginia Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service have built an interactive Geospatial Information Systems database with more than 7GB (one dot per person; 308,745,538 dots) of Census data to show us where US Americans live on a map. Pretty incredible...

A few neat things to note:
1) Natural geographical features of our country that have influenced population centers (rivers, mountains, plains, desert).
2) State, county and city boundaries that have influenced population centers.
3) Streaks of population that are clawing their way westward in ND, SD, NE, KS, OK, & TX.

Link to interactive map.

GhostZ > doodon2whls 09/05/2013 at 11:15

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Please, people, think about what you're doing for a second.

There is a problem with this country, and it's one that has gone unnoticed for a long time. It's serious, and if we don't act on it, a lot of people will be forced into doing things without knowing how bad it could get. We need to let people know:

You do not want to move westward in Nebraska. You do not. Stay where it is green.

HammerheadFistpunch > doodon2whls 09/05/2013 at 11:21

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do I like living in the white colored (not race) part of the map? yes I do.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > doodon2whls 09/05/2013 at 11:22

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A wise officer of the law, one Sheriff Bart, once opined, "where the white women at?"

Now, a long century and change later, we know. We know.

PelicanHazard > doodon2whls 09/05/2013 at 11:26

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Zooming in shows localized effects:

1] In a majority black/white city (Pittsburgh), there is a huge and bright block of red where Pitt and CMU are located.

2] Most neighborhoods aren't so well integrated.

3] Some cities actually have huge gaps in residential areas (due to parks, topology, etc) that this map shows better than normal street maps.

doodon2whls > PelicanHazard 09/05/2013 at 11:29

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Yup.. The lack of integration was one of the key observations in the data... Look at 8-mile in Detroit, for example...

WIRED has an article about the study...

shpuker > doodon2whls 09/05/2013 at 12:19

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Whoa, you can see the SEC from there....