US Population By Longitude & Latitude

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My friend Eddie reminded me of this nice set of figures that made the rounds a few months ago on Visual.ly (and also Reddit).

I thought it would be cool to zoom in on the USA in high detail using data from the 2010 US Census... so that's what I did. As a bonus, the pixels represent the density of ZIP codes in small bins, which essentially track population density.  Enjoy!



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  1. JamesOctober 1, 2012 at 9:13 AM

    Picked up by Visual Loop, and also posted to Visual.ly

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  2. UnknownOctober 5, 2012 at 8:49 AM

    Would you be able to use this same method for the world population? That would be interesting to see. That along with a "Guns, Germs, Steel" sort of analysis about the causes and implications of such population distribution.

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    1. JamesOctober 5, 2012 at 8:52 AM

      Yes, absolutely this could be done for World Population - in fact it was originally (see here) done that way using data from 2000 by Bill Rankin. I'd love to do a new version of that worldwide figure if I could find an appropriate data set. Alas, the day job beckons!

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  3. UnknownNovember 9, 2015 at 9:07 AM

    Where can I find the code for this?

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