http://blog.webfoot.com Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:29:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Update: Some of the ridings were assigned to neighbouring ridings due to losing some precision in the input lat/lng.  This did not make a big difference in the overall picture, as only 2.7% of the projects were classified incorrectly.  I've updated this blog posting and the map; we probably won't ... http://blog.webfoot.com/2009/10/26/canadian-stimulus-infrastructure-leaving-quebec-out/ I have two more political layers up on my political/demographic map: US state senators and US state representatives (or assemblymembers, as they are called in some states).  Alaska and Hawaii didn't fit nicely on these images, but you can see them on the political/demographic map. In the pictures below (and on ... http://blog.webfoot.com/2009/10/09/state-legislators-affiliations/ I just added the median household income to a demographics map, and my oh my you see so much more at the census tract level than you do at the county level.  (I recommend making it a bit more opaque to help you see better.) The map makes me think of ... http://blog.webfoot.com/2009/10/07/median-household-income-map-done/ I'm really sorry, but I moved from http://webfoot.com/blog to blog.webfoot.com, and the users are (hopefully only temporarily) lost.  I'll work on it, but it might be a little while. Okay, I think users are back up.  Let me know. http://blog.webfoot.com/2009/10/02/terribly-sorry/ (See also part 1 and part 2 of my Africa postings.) It's sort of cliche to say, "the thing I liked best about county X was the people".  We said that about the people in Quebec City, for example.  The people in Botswana, however, take it to a whole different level. There ... http://blog.webfoot.com/2009/08/17/africa-journal-part-3-people/ It might not look like I have done much with my maps in a while, but I have been doing quite a lot behind the scenes. Census Tracts I am thrilled to say that I now have demographic data at the census tract level now on my electoral map!  Unlike my old ... http://blog.webfoot.com/2009/08/15/progress-including-census-tracts/ Of all the charismatic megafauna in Botswana, elephants are perhaps the most charismatic and definitely the most mega. We are also friends with Jake Wall, an elephant researcher working with Save the Elephants (see the National Geographic article that he's featured in!), so we probably knew more about elephants ... http://blog.webfoot.com/2009/08/05/africa-journal-part-2-elephants/ Jim and I, having no kids of our own, borrow nieces and nephews when they turn (about) fourteen.  We had a friend from Botswana who encouraged us to visit, and The Niece was up for it, so we went to Africa!  This post talks a little about where we went, ... http://blog.webfoot.com/2009/08/05/africa-journal-logistics/ I had a very brief but very interesting talk with Prof. Margaret Burnett.  She does research on gender and programming. at Oregon State University, but was in town for the International Conference on Software Engineering.  She said that many studies have shown that women are -- in general -- more ... http://blog.webfoot.com/2009/05/20/gender-and-programming/ I added a state legislatures partisanship layer to my election map, and also modified a metric which shows kind of how liberal an area is.  For every governor, US senator, or US congressman in a district that is a Democrat, I added one.  For every legislator who is a Republican, ... http://blog.webfoot.com/2009/05/10/arkansas-liberalism/