Seattle: Race and Ethnicity, by Eric Fisher
Eric Fisher continues to go crazy with informational city maps. Previously, he inferred the speed of Seattle, sorting the tourists from the residents using geotagging data. Now he’s taken a look at the way that the residents of major American cities assort themselves. Inspired by Bill Rankin’s map of Chicago’s racial and ethnic divides, he took census data from the year 2000 to see how other cities stacked up in terms of how citizens identify themselves and where they live.
Each dot in the plot above represents 25 people. The red-green colorblind among you may see a nearly monochrome map since those two colors represent self-identified whites and Asians. The cluster of blue dots in the center of the map represent African-Americans. In and of themselves, the findings are hardly shocking, but since it’s Flickr, the map has already become interactive as users chime in with notes and comments to explain the city’s patterns. Even if you aren’t a sucker for information graphics, there’s something interesting in comparing and contrasting our city with the others in the photoset.
At the moment, the data is ten years old. I’m curious to see how (or if) it changes when the latest census numbers are tallied.
(via What I Learned Today)
i laugh when people claim that Seattle is such a diverse city.
big difference between diverse & integrated – and this map proves it