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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Best Map Ever Made of America’s Racial Segregation
Last year, a pair of researchers from Duke University published a report with a bold title: The End of the Segregated Century. U.S. cities, the authors concluded, were less segregated in 2012 than they had been at any point since 1910. But less segregated does not necessarily mean integratedsomething this incredible map makes clear in vivd color.
The map, created by Dustin Cable at University of Virginias Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, is stunningly comprehensive. Drawing on data from the 2010 U.S. Census, it shows one dot per person, color-coded by race. Thats 308,745,538 dots in allaround 7 GB of visual data. It isnt the first map to show the countrys ethnic distribution, nor is it the first to show every single citizen, but it is the first to do both, making it the most comprehensive map of race in America ever created.
White people are shown with blue dots; African-Americans with green; Asians with red; and Latinos with orange, with all other race categories from the Census represented by brown. Since the dots are smaller than pixels at most zoom levels, Cable assigned shades of color based on the multiple dots therein. From a distance, for example, certain neighborhoods will look purple, but zooming-in reveals a finer-grained breakdown of red and blueor, really, black and white.
http://www.wired.com/design/2013/08/how-segregated-is-your-city-this-eye-opening-map-shows-you/
Lasher
(27,640 posts)A word of caution: Don't download the full interactive map unless you've got a high speed internet connection and a relatively decent computer. Even at that, be prepared to wait minutes, not seconds. You need to click on the 'add map labels' button so that you can tell where you are - particularly when you zoom.
Edit: And then when you zoom, it needs to download more - quite a bit more. Recommend that you put a dialup warning in your OP.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)White: blue dots; African American: green dots; Asian: red; Latino: orange; all others: brown