Sound the trumpets! The SF1 data for all states is now available on Cubit. We first announced that we were adding SF1 data, state-by-state as they were released by the Census, back in July. It’s been a lot of work processing (and waiting for) the data, but we got it done! What’s new SF1 data [...]
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Demographics of Austin Texas – 2010
Last night, Ryan Robinson, City of Austin demographer, gave an inspirational and engaging presentation about the Top 10 Demographic Trends of Austin, Texas for 2010.The title of the presentation was “Making Sense of the Census,” and the presentation was given to the Austin Hacks and Hackers group (where journalists and programmers meet). The presentation slides [...]
Census 2010 SF1 Data Now Available
The US Census Bureau has been releasing the Census 2010 SF1 data for a few states each week. The Census 2010 SF1 data include more detailed demographics than the previously released Census 2010 redistricting data (which only had population, race and housing unit data). Below is a list of states that I’ve finished adding the [...]
Use Data Journalism to Increase Visitors to Your Website
If you’re interested in ideas about increasing the number of visitors to your website, check out this presentation that I gave to Austin’s Hacks and Hackers. The purpose of the group is to connect developers (hackers) with journalists (hacks). The Most Important Take Away People love data …when the data is about themselves. The Rest [...]
Walkable Neighborhoods in Your City Survey
In this post about walkability & lack of racial diversity and this post about walkability & higher vacancy rates, there were lots of comments that questioned the sample of 20 walkable neighborhoods. In both posts, I used the 20 most walkable neighborhoods in 20 different United States cities according to their Walkscore.com scores. So let’s [...]
