New Census data show the areas of the country where more businesses are being established.
Open Data Aha!
Signposting to open data being used in 'real life'
Tag: Census
Where New Businesses Are Starting Up
Posted in Benefits of open data, Commercial opportunities, Posts from feeds, Visualising data Tagged with: Census, Governing, Mike Maciag, open data, startups, U.S. Census Bureau, USA
A Step-by-Step Guide to the 2011 Indian Census: Its Successes, Failures and Questions
This post is the third post in our Decoding Open Data series. The foundation of this series is our slideshare, which examines the open dataset and provides key insights and analytics about the 2011 Census. Decoding Open Data: 2011 Indian Census…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Data, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Transparency Tagged with: 2011 Indian Census, Census, housing, India, open data, population, survey, Transparency
Meet the Journalist: Matt Black
Matt Black The Geography of Poverty is a digital documentary project by photographer Matt Black combining geotagged photographs with census data to create a modern portrait of American poverty. Black talks about his effort to explore and document contemporary poverty…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Data Journalism, Innovation, Journalism, Posts from feeds, Quality of life, Smart communities, Visualising data Tagged with: Census, Matt Black, photography, poverty, Pulitzer Center, U.S. Census Bureau, USA
Interactive Scatterplots of Census Data Using ggvis
(This article was first published on AriLamstein.com » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Today I finished two projects that had been on my mind for a while: Try out ggvis, the interactive successor to ggplot2 Create interactive scatterplots of census data You…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Posts from feeds, Visualising data Tagged with: Ari Lamstein, Census, data visualisation, open data, R-bloggers, Scatterplot, U.S. Census Bureau
The Smart Map Using Open Data to Prevent Fire Tragedies
The single most important tool for preventing fire deaths, unsurprisingly, is a smoke alarm, but an estimated 4.5 million of the 130 million housing units across the United States do not have one. Enigma, a New York based startup, is…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Commercial opportunities, Greater efficiency, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Neat tools, Posts from feeds, Public safety, Quality of life, Resilience, Saving money, Smart communities, Visualising data Tagged with: Census, Enigma, fire, fire prevention, housing, KARI PAUL, mapping, Motherboard, open data, search engine, smoke alarm, smoke alarms, Smoke Signal
Cambridge is region’s commuting capital – and look how far people will travel to work here
Cambridge is the region’s commuting capital with people coming from all corners of East Anglia to work here, new analysis shows.A series of extraordinary maps reveal the vast distances large numbers are prepared to travel to capitalise on the Cambridge…
Can Census data make for smarter startups?
Thinking about starting a small business? The Census Bureau has an app for that. The Bureau on Sept. 9 unveiled Census Business Builder: Small Business Edition — a web-based tool to help entrepreneurs and small business owners leverage local demographic…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Commercial opportunities, Innovation, Posts from feeds Tagged with: Apps, businesses, Census, Census Business Builder, Derek Major, GCN, open data, startup, U.S. Census Bureau
Why Did It Take 4 Years to Prepare for the 2011 Census of India?
This is the second post in our Decoding Open Data series. The foundation of this series is our slideshare, which examines the open dataset and provides key insights and analytics about the 2011 Census of India. Decoding Open Data: 2011…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Smart communities, Transparency Tagged with: 2011 Indian Census, Census, India
The Trouble With Disappearing Summer Jobs
Summer jobs build character. (Fox) In my late teens, I developed skills that have served me invaluably as an employee and an economist. I had complete confidence that I could move just about anywhere, find a job, a place to…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Posts from feeds, Visualising data Tagged with: Allison Schrager, Census, CityLab, employment, recession, skills, Summer Jobs, U.S. Census Bureau, young people
Where Police Don’t Mirror Communities and Why It Matters
For years, the Irving, Texas, Police Department has worked to become more diverse. Recruiters have traveled to predominately black and Latino colleges across the state, attended cultural events and forged relationships with high schools to pitch students on law enforcement…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Public safety, Transparency Tagged with: Census, demographics, Governing, inequality, Mike Maciag, minority, open data, Police, population, race