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Reviving the Statistical Atlas of the United States with New Data

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    "Ever since I found out about the Statistical Atlas of the United States, historically produced by the Census Bureau, it annoyed me that there wasn't one in the works for the 2010 Census due to cuts in funding. The last one was for 2000. Actually, the 2000 edition was called the Census Atlas, but whatever. With more data than ever, it seems like there should be one.

    Maybe that's why there's isn't one.

    Too much data, too much of an undertaking, and too many bureaucratic decisions to make.

    The first Atlas, by Francis A. Walker, was published in 1874 using the data from the prior 1870 Census. Counting cover, credits, and all that, it was 56 pages.

    I got to thinking, hey, I could do that. And if I did, I wouldn't have to be annoyed anymore. So I recreated the original Statistical Atlas of the United States with current data. I used similar styling, and had one main rule for myself. All the data had to be publicly available and come from government sites.

    Here are my results."

    Source : Flowingdata:
    http://flowingdata.com/2015/06/16/reviving-the-statistical-atlas-of-the-united-states-with-new-data/

    The R Project:
    http://www.r-project.org

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