Racial Dot Density Map (USA)

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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_ ... acial.html

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Blue = White
Green = Black
Red = Asian
Orange = Latino
Brown = Other
Segregation, diversity, and clustering become very clear when every human becomes a dot.

How diverse is your neighborhood really? This map by Dustin Cable at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service displays the population distribution of every person in America (as of the 2010 census) along racial and ethnic lines. The map features 308,745,538 dots, each smaller than a single pixel and each representing one person: Caucasians are blue, blacks are green, Hispanics are orange, Asians are red, and other races are brown.

The vast swaths of purple appear to show the racial diversity of some of America’s biggest cities. But if you zoom into the map and break these cities down at the neighborhood level, patterns of segregation become much clearer.
Link to Google map style interface for the Racial Density Map.
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Fascinating map!

Though I am amused at the idea that it contains dots "smaller than a single pixel". :)
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I'm colour blind so fuck that map.
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So does nobody actually live in the eastern half of the country?
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It almost looks like whole states are empty.
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GrahamKennedy wrote:So does nobody actually live in the eastern half of the country?
Western, you mean. California is quite populous but much of the southwest is a desert, and the Rockies also help to break things up.
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OTOH, if you look in the desert southwest region there's one blob which must be Las Vegas.
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Captain Picard's Hair wrote:
GrahamKennedy wrote:So does nobody actually live in the eastern half of the country?
Western, you mean.
Doh, so I did. Thanks.
California is quite populous but much of the southwest is a desert, and the Rockies also help to break things up.
Makes sense, I guess. I always had the impression that it was way more distributed than that.
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Teaos wrote:I'm colour blind so fuck that map.
Yup, getting this issue too. It hurts to look at.
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GrahamKennedy wrote:So does nobody actually live in the eastern half of the country?
Damn you! I spent a good solid minute figuring out which way was East!

If the a dot a smaller than a pixel then it may lead to the conclusion that a single dot in the middle nowhere in a state may not show up.

I wonder why they can't make this half size or quarter size. So a pixel is two dots or four dots.
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Teaos wrote:I'm colour blind so fuck that map.
Sorry. but I actually laughed out loud at this comment. A few times actually...
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Teaos wrote:I'm colour blind so fuck that map.
Holy shit Teaos! That was fucking clever. 8)
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Jim wrote:
Teaos wrote:I'm colour blind so fuck that map.
Sorry. but I actually laughed out loud at this comment. A few times actually...
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Wow, I was amazed at how much white there was, what no people live there? That's where I want to live, middle of no-where. Away from the constant drumbeat of rascism, sexism, can't say this, can't say that (oh my, you might offend someone). To get away from the premise that inanimate objects such as guns, drugs, knives, etc. are the cause of the worlds woes (truly idiotic that) and not the people that perpetrate the atrocities.

Sorry for the rant, it may be that I just hate people and want to be a hermit..........
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Vic wrote:Wow, I was amazed at how much white there was, what no people live there? That's where I want to live, middle of no-where. Away from the constant drumbeat of rascism, sexism, can't say this, can't say that (oh my, you might offend someone). To get away from the premise that inanimate objects such as guns, drugs, knives, etc. are the cause of the worlds woes (truly idiotic that) and not the people that perpetrate the atrocities.

Sorry for the rant, it may be that I just hate people and want to be a hermit..........
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