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USAID providing disaster relief in the Philippines in the aftermath of Typhoon Krathon (Julian) in Northern Luzon.

USAID Website Goes Offline as Trump Continues to Dismantle Government

Trump is purging information that doesn't suit his fascist worldview.

Tech News Matt Novak Feb 1

How We Determined Predictive Policing Software Disproportionately Targeted Low-Income, Black, and Latino Neighborhoods

A trove of unsecured data allowed the first-ever independent analysis of actual crime predictions across the U.S. by the self-described software leader, PredPol

Crime Dhruv Mehrotra, Surya Mattu, Annie Gilbertson, and Aaron Sankin Dec 2

President Trump Insists He Could’ve Won Without Social Media During Morning Toilet Tweets

President Donald Trump insisted in a tweet this morning that he could’ve won the presidency in 2016 without the help of social media. But Trump immediately contradicted himself, sending out a series of follow-up tweets claiming that he doesn’t need the mainstream media and that social media is much more important. Trump’s first tweet this…

Politics Matt Novak Jul 11

Desktops Now Less Popular Than Tablets in the U.S.

The gadgets we use can be a good indicator of where our society is at today, and where it’s going in the future. And judging by numbers from a recent survey by the NTIA (National Telecommunications and Information Administration), some encouraging tech trends have been occurring over the last couple years. The data, which was…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford Jun 7

An AI Accurately Guessed Race and Voting Patterns by Counting Cars on Google Street View

A robust, timely census is vital to democracy. Censuses sketch the changing face of our nation by charting both political and demographic shifts, including changes in wealth and neighborhood transitions. Most crucially, they influence how resources and political power are doled out: Cities use census data to set budgets and the Constitution mandates a national…

Tech News Sidney Fussell Dec 20

Facebook Claimed It Could Sell Ads to 10 Million More Millennials Than Actually Exist

Citing census data, an equity research analyst claims Facebook is once again inflating one of its key metrics, this time grossly over-reporting its ability to sell ads and effectively inventing millions more young Americans than actually exist. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-admits-to-more-false-metrics-1789039593 Facebook told advertisers that the platform can potentially “reach” 41 million young adults between 18 and 24 in…

Social Media Sidney Fussell Sep 6

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. Here’s the problem: On the 2011 census (it takes places every five years) 64,390 Australians…

io9 Germain Lussier Aug 1

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. Which professions have the highest fatality rates? Fishers top the list, followed…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan May 15

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. The Census has crunched its most recent data collected on 18-34 year olds today and compared it with the results of…

io9 Ria Misra Dec 4

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. According to a new Censusreport on how we’re getting around these days, biking is the fastest-growing mode of commuting to work in the U.S. today. Interestingly, the temperateness of the…

io9 Ria Misra May 9

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 doing? If you’re from Connecticut, the…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Apr 23

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. Green marks areas with no census-residents; white marks areas with census-residents. Image credit: @matamix. Thanks…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Apr 23

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.” Michael Chung‘s map follows the same colour scheme as Freeman’s and Sherwood’s: white are populated…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Apr 22

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. On the left is a segment of a map by Nik Freeman featured by…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Apr 17

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. Highlighted on the Washington…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Apr 16

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. In this post calling for the trade secrets from commenters fields of expertise, commenter BrigadierGeneral shared…

io9 Ria Misra Sep 27

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. Map via Business Insider Of course, some counties contain way more people per square mile than others, and some counties are gargantuan,…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Sep 5

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. Sure, sorta similar maps have existed before, but none this detailed. Created by Dustin Cable, a demographer at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Aug 13

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.” http://gawker.com/weep-weep-for-white-america-is-dying-513099508

Sploid Jesus Diaz Jun 13

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…

Tech News Eric Limer Dec 29

Census

USAID Website Goes Offline as Trump Continues to Dismantle Government

How We Determined Predictive Policing Software Disproportionately Targeted Low-Income, Black, and Latino Neighborhoods

President Trump Insists He Could’ve Won Without Social Media During Morning Toilet Tweets

Desktops Now Less Popular Than Tablets in the U.S.

An AI Accurately Guessed Race and Voting Patterns by Counting Cars on Google Street View

Facebook Claimed It Could Sell Ads to 10 Million More Millennials Than Actually Exist

So Many Australians Are Claiming ‘Jedi’ as Their Religion That It’s Becoming a Problem

The 10 Most Dangerous Jobs In the US Aren’t What You’d Expect

How Millennials Stack Up To The Generations Before Them

Bicycling Is Now The Fastest Growing Method Of Commuting To Work

A Map of Who Doesn’t Have Indoor Plumbing in the United States

Yet Another Green/White Census Map

Canada is Really Big, but Not Empty

How You Count Matters: Maps of Census Data in the US

Here’s a Map of the 47 Percent of America Where No One Lives

Comment of the Day: Sewage and Statistics Edition

Half of the U.S. lives in these 146 counties – is yours one of them?

The Entire Distribution of Ethnicity in the US, Person-By-Person

More White Americans Are Dying Than Being Born

This Crazy Map Has One Dot for Every Person in the United States

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