This Google Fusion Tables Map is inspired by President Obama’s State of the Union address where he backs natural gas fracking [1, 2] and Andy Arthur‘s map. I’ve placed the locations of natural gas wells over a map of property values in Pennsylvania (the full map can be found here). I lived in Broome County, [ Read More ]
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Above is a map of Pennsylvania median property values (2000) by zip code created with Google Fusion Tables. Google Fusion Tables is a great tool, but it can be 1) a bit intimidating 2) difficult to use without knowing how to get shape files. While problem #1 can be solved with practice and playing around, [ Read More ]
Google Fusion Tables is a useful (free) tool for visualizing data. You can create maps, scatter, bar, and pie charts using one or more data tables. Perhaps the best feature is the custom map function. Above is a map of cancer incidence rates from the CDC for Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. Here [ Read More ]
This is a PowerPoint file which includes charts, graphs and tables dealing with inequality, wealth accumulation, employment, and unemployment. This presentation also deals with how employment/unemployment varies based on geography, gender, and race. This set is largely inspired the the infographics from Mother Jones illustrating the growing inequality gap in the United States. Infographics have [ Read More ]
Timelines are useful tools for social scientists or anyone interested in history or how things in the past are interrelated. While there are a lot of free timeline tools online (e.g. CHNM, SIMILE), I wanted something I could easily cut & paste into documents and presentations. This is an Excel based timeline that covers the [ Read More ]