The Short Version I pulled Census 2010 data for 20 walkable neighborhoods in the United States and compared the racial percentages for those neighborhoods to the racial percentages of either the city or county surrounding the neighborhood. Two patterns appeared. Walkable neighborhoods are less diverse than their surrounding cities/counties. Blacks & Hispanics are less likely [...]
Urban Planning Career Path: Data Scientist–the Decade’s Sexiest Job
Today’s inspiration comes from Wikibon’s infographic about the sexiest job of the next decade: the data scientist. Many planners already collect, analyze, interpret and leverage data in their current positions. With a bit of brushing up on the technology side, an alternative urban planning career path could be a Data Scientist position. If you’re interested [...]
Census 2010 Cities Data
I recently got a request from a user to provide Census 2010 cities data for all cities in the United States through Cubit’s new new Name Your Geography feature. The Cubit user requesting this data said that the “American Fact Finder 2 is currently throwing an error for this search.” Since I’ve already pulled Census 2010 Redistricting [...]
It’s “Take Your Sense of Humor to Work” Day
This inspiration comes from Dropbox, an online service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. I was syncing my Dropbox account to a new computer, and I got the message in the screen shot below. This message made me laugh out loud. Today, take your sense of humor to [...]
Name Your Geographies: Upload a List of Geographies & We’ll Give You Census 2010 Data
We’re testing a new feature in Cubit. Sometimes, you know the names of the geographies that you need data for, but it’s difficult to draw those geographies on a map. For example, you might want demographic data for all 109,582 Census 2010 blocks in Los Angeles County, California. Now you can use the Name Your [...]
