8 Reasons You Should Care a Lot About the 2020 Census
Do you care about the 2020 census? You should. We all probably should care more about the 2020 census, because John Thompson, the director of the Census Bureau and the man in charge of running the 2020 census, stepped down last week. It’s hard to overstate what huge news this is, and yet the story isn’t getting a ton…
So Many Australians Are Claiming 'Jedi' as Their Religion That It's Becoming a Problem
A battle over government, religion, and Star Wars is brewing in Australia. The country will hold their national census on August 9 and a group of people is begging their fellow citizens to not put “Jedi” down as their religion.
The 10 Most Dangerous Jobs In the US Aren't What You'd Expect
When we think of dangerous jobs, most of us think about firefighters or ice road truckers. But Bloomberg crunched the Department of Labor’s newly-released stats, and came up with a few disturbing and surprising facts about who really has the most dangerous gig.
How Millennials Stack Up To The Generations Before Them
Are Millennials really so different than the generations of young adults that came before them? Some data forensics reveals what has — and hasn't — actually changed about being a young adult in America.
Bicycling Is Now The Fastest Growing Method Of Commuting To Work
So long, flying cars! It turns out that the transportation of the future might just already be propped up next to your garage: the bicycle.
A Map of Who Doesn't Have Indoor Plumbing in the United States
Did you know that 1.6 million Americans don't have complete indoor plumbing? The American Community Survey published on Tuesday that says that nearly 630,000 occupied homes in the United States lack complete plumbing facilities*, and The Washington Post whipped it into a handy interactive map. How's your home state…
Yet Another Green/White Census Map
Hey, look! It's another, "Which census districts are empty?" map, this time for France. Interestingly, this map is a population density map in one-kilometer grids, lacking the harsh borders of census tracts as in the maps we've looked at recently.
Canada is Really Big, but Not Empty
The maps showing how much of the United States is empty is visually interesting, but mostly demonstrates the importance of the data-aggregation area. A similar map for Canada is flawed by mistaking "no data available" for "no one is there."
How You Count Matters: Maps of Census Data in the US
Maps are interesting, where the same data can be used to tell many stories. Displaying United States census data as numerical counts or as density portray American population distribution dramatically differently, as a country that is half empty, or half full.
Here's a Map of the 47 Percent of America Where No One Lives
As anyone who's driven through Middle America knows, it feels like there's very few places in the U.S. that don't have at least a few inhabitants. But as a map by cartographer Nik Freeman proves, there are still some amber waves of grain and fruited plains that remain. Emphasis on some.
Comment of the Day: Sewage and Statistics Edition
In today's comments, we learned how to calculate the event horizon of a black hole, where to look for the very best in sci-fi inspired music, and one very surprising fact about where those between-year census figures come from.
Half of the U.S. lives in these 146 counties - is yours one of them?
Using publicly available Census data, Business Insider's Walter Hickey and Joe Weisenthal have deduced that over half of America's population is localized to a mere 146 of the 3,144 U.S. counties and county-equivalents.
The Entire Distribution of Ethnicity in the US, Person-By-Person
This map is covered in dots. In fact, there are 308,745,538 of the little things—each one representing a single individual living in the US, and its color indicating ethnicity.
More White Americans Are Dying Than Being Born
Not only white people are quickly becoming a minority in the United states, but "new Census figures released today show that for the first time in more than a century, more white Americans died than were born last year."
This Crazy Map Has One Dot for Every Person in the United States
The amount of people in the whole world is pretty wildly unfathomable. For that matter, even a subset like just the 300,000,000 or so that live in the United States can be hard to wrap your head around. This interactive map by Brandon M-Anderson helps by showing one dot for each of them. It's pretty wild.
Beautiful, hi-res census maps provide fascinating snapshots of 1870s America
You're looking at just one print from a collection that comprises dozens of spellbinding maps and charts based on the results of the 1870 US census — the ninth census ever conducted, and the first to be performed in the years following the Civil War.
Who Really Is the World's 7 Billionth Person?
The world's 7 billionth person was a tiny little girl named Danica May Camacho who is born today in Manila, the Philipines, and weighed just 5.5 pounds (she was one month premature).
People Get Paid to Track Down Panda Doo Doo in China
It's 2011 and that means it's time for something you have no idea about so i'll tell you: PANDA CENSUS. There are around 1500 Pandas alive these days, and the Chinese want to know exactly how many there are. So what do they do? Hire Panda trackers, of course.
You Watch More Stuff Online than on TV. So Do We
So far, over 1,000 io9 readers have shared their feedback with us via the 2010 Gawker Media Census. We found out that 60% of those who responded use hulu.com to get their sci-fi fixes. Where do you watch? Join the party—click through to submit your Census!
