Data In Context Michal Migurski, Stamen Design Hacks & Hackers, January 2011 http://sta.mn/jty
Stamen Eric Rodenbeck Michal Migurski (me) Shawn Allen Deborah Monaghan Aaron Straup Cope Geraldine Sarmiento Sean Connelly Jeff Easter Patrick Dillon Julie Bottrell
 
 
 
3 Contexts…
Here vs. There
Now vs. Then
Small-Here  vs. Big-Here vs. Big-Here
2 Projects Crimespotting This Tract
Crimespotting http://crimespotting.org
 
 
http://sta.mn/sw
http://sta.mn/sw
http://sta.mn/sw
http://sta.mn/sw
http://sta.mn/twz
http://sta.mn/d3r
http://sta.mn/cwmj
 
 
 
 
 
http://sta.mn/4w
Data is the  public good public good
This Tract http://thistract.com
http://sta.mn/qd
http://sta.mn/y8v
http://sta.mn/y8v ←  Chinatown
http://sta.mn/2mt Park Slope -> ←  Chinatown
http://sta.mn/h3
http://sta.mn/zzz
http://sta.mn/kjb
http://sta.mn/kt9
http://sta.mn/kt9
http://sta.mn/kt9
Tracts Small Homogenous Permanent (sort of) About 4,000 people Always nest within counties Boundaries on visible features Stable identifiers: FIPS codes
http://sta.mn/9yy You Are Here ->
http://sta.mn/9yy
http://sta.mn/9yy
http://sta.mn/9yy
http://sta.mn/9yy
Tools Our choice of tools is biased toward  simple hosting and flat-file storage.
census-tools Getting the original data: “…help make it  easy to extract data from the online zip file  of the 2000 U.S. Census without having  to download them first.” http://sta.mn/xx
Protovis Charts in the browser: “…a graphical  toolkit, designed for visualization” http://sta.mn/qgq
FCC Block API No database: “… returns the US Census Bureau Census Block number (a.k.a. the  15 character FIPS Code) given a passed  Latitude and Longitude.” http://sta.mn/rww
http://sta.mn/5x
http://sta.mn/wkk
http://sta.mn/pgn
http://sta.mn/bv
http://sta.mn/rb
Here vs. There Now vs. Then Small-Here vs. Big-Here Small-Here vs. Big-Here Small-Here vs. Big-Here
Thank You. Michal Migurski [email_address] http://sta.mn/jty
 

Michal Migurski: Data in Context

Editor's Notes

  • #22 “ The Pie Of Time”
  • #30 Disneyland. I’ll get back to this.
  • #31 TIME - median monthly rent
  • #33 Eric Fischer’s dot maps of the ACS
  • #35 CHICAGO BOUNDARIES, Bill Rankin, 2009 “ Albany Park is one of 77 well-defined Chicago, Illinois , community areas . … It is part of the 60625 zip code, which is known as one of the most diverse areas in the entire country.”
  • #36 What’s interesting about the census?
  • #42 About even M/F ratio. 1,726 population.
  • #43 Disproportionately 18-29, which usually means college and post-college.
  • #44 Higher income and higher education than average as well.
  • #45 Higher proportion of single-person and two person residences.
  • #50 Chinatown
  • #51 Harvard
  • #52 Marco Island, FL
  • #53 Kalawao County: “ No new patients, or other permanent residents, are admitted. Visitors are only permitted as part of officially sanctioned tours. State law prohibits anyone under the age of 16 from visiting or living there.”
  • #54 Palm Springs