Thought For The Day: “Immerse yourself in the data. You’ll get used to the overload and overwhelm. There’s clarity on the other side.”
- Social Explorer
This amazing site creates detailed maps from census data. It’s a fantastic tool for figuring out the geographic location of talent pools. There are also easy to use reports. Here are some maps you should see:- Immigration Explorer this map, from the New York Times website, was built using Social Explorer. It gives a graphic representation of immigration and absorption over the past 150 years.
- Census Tract Population Density Maps. shows educational attainment, Religion. marital status, employment sector and more
- Religion Maps show the density of various faiths over the post 30 years
- New York City Race Map shows the neighborhood concentration of different races over the past 100 years in New York City.
- The Pew Hispanic Center’s Hispanic Population by County
Also includes data sets by state and county. - The American Human Development Project
This tremendous resource aggregates data to develop a score to describe living conditions. - Mapcruzin
Very dense data source with lots of eco related information in map form.
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