May

06

Visualizing 2012 census estimates using CartoDB and Leaflet

I’ve been tinkering around with some new mapping tools lately, and figured I’d put them to good use by displaying the 2011-2012 population estimates released last week by the U.S. Census Bureau. The inherently geographical nature of the census makes it a data set just begging to be mapped. Rather than the de facto Google [...]

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Apr

03

INTERACTIVE: Why is the South the most obese part of the country? Five theories

What’s making the South –– the region CDC Dr. William Dietz has dubbed “the heart disease and stroke belt” –– more chubby than the rest of the country? Here are five possible explanations.

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