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Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Reactions to web site: NYT/NSF Social Explorer

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At 10:50 PM, Blogger umaysay said...

I found interactive mapping services both amusing and confusing. Among the six mapping web sites, NYT/NSF seems to be the most useful tool for individual users and public-interest groups because it provides the map and the demographic information in a visual fashion at the same time. It is easy to notice the difference among communities.
USA Census 2000 Maps provide a variety of demographic information type about local communities, enabling us to compare with adjacent communities. Because I live in the Eagle Heights, the University Housing, my intention was to compare the local communities in terms of income. The zoomed-in interactive map shows a big income difference between the Eagle Heights community and the nearby Shorewood Hills community. But, this map service doesn’t provide specific data behind the map. Nonetheless, it shows the differences by color.

 
At 11:02 PM, Blogger Nick said...

The main goal of Social Explorer is to "visually display the demographic change that has occurred in the U.S. since 1790 through the present, for the country over all down to the level of the county." Unless I missed something, the historical part of this is incomplete. I imagine that gathering data from as far back as 1790 will be a challenge, particularly down to the county scale. The historical set that I played with, the "Los Angeles county race map 1940-2000" was not integrated with the data from the census map sets. For example, I searched for my Madison home while looking at the LA maps and it put a pin somewhere in Santa Barbara. The 2000 census data that are there, however, are extremely useful, and I like the simplicity of the interface - zoom in, zoom out, and hand. While I recognized most of the categories from the census, I was not familiar with some such as unmarried partners and transportation to work. I thought it was fun to look at these for various Madison census tracts. I was curious about the software download titled SE Map Viewer, but did not acquire it.

 

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