This post is inspired by President Obama’s recent remarks about higher education, and Governor Corbett‘s recent announcement that there will be additional cuts to public universities in Pennsylvania. The above is a map of educational attainment by state using information from below, which originally comes from the U.S. Census Bureau. FYI: the list is sortable.  [ Read More ]

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 ]