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Hey why the hell is there a tightly packed cluster of black and hispanic people north of San Luis Ob—.... oh. http://i.imgur.com/HXZ09dh.png
To save others from looking it up: "California Mens Colony Prison"
This is fascinating. It really shows how racially segregated a lot of cities are. But from my knowledge of a few cities where I've lived, all the "cool" places to live are very mixed. Not sure if that says more about my idea of desirable places to live or the effects of gentrification, but this map is definitely very thought-provoking. Thanks for sharing.
Jesus, look at the difference between EPA and Palo Alto. I knew it was segregated, but amazing what one road can do.. http://imgur.com/JrLzd8X
Reminds me of this old picture of the racial makeup around 8-mile in Detroit: http://images.sciencedaily.com/2014/09/140909162349-large.jp... Green = African American, Orange = Caucasian FWIW, having moved from the St. Louis area and traveling through Ferguson MO on a daily basis, it's obvious to me the racial makeup is a symptom/result of economics. Race + economics is a hard ship to steer, for sure.
Or it's a really easy ship to steer, and racial makeup is a symptom/result of preferences, planning, legislation, and enforcement.
Boo... "Other Race / Native American / Multi-racial" Turns out composition is better than inheritance for so many things.
Alternate one-liner: Click the lower button on the left and everyone turns into a duck!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only if you count the 17% who are hispanic as white, otherwise it's 62%. But Hispanic white people will probably stop being viewed as a separate racial groups before that long, as happened with the Irish.
Yeah I mean, they're still of European descent, why not call them white? I know, race is fuzzy. Edit: For the US Census, Hispanic people are of "Spanish culture or origin regardless of race."
Dots should darken (or enlarge) when zooming in; as-is, because the dot-density decreases, the image as a whole lightens and becomes difficult to see at high zoom levels.
I was wondering about this. Any suggestions on papers or code that detail that technique?
If I zoom out to see the whole contiguous 48 states, each pixel on my screen is about 10 square kilometers. Consider filling the screen with that 10 square kilometers. For say, San Francisco, that gives me 13000 people to place in something like a million pixels of white. That is a nice density for a dot map, but my screen is mostly white. If we want to keep the color density, when we zoom out to see the country, even San Francisco is going to be a mostly white pixel.
With continuous smooth zoom you could smoothly change the size of the person dot from a 1/10th of a pixel to one pixel and probably come up with a nice effect, but you'd need to be rendering at 30fps or so to be smooth and this web site doesn't seem to be built for that.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only if you count the 17% who are hispanic as white, otherwise it's 62%. But Hispanic white people will probably stop being viewed as a separate racial groups before that long, as happened with the Irish.
Yeah I mean, they're still of European descent, why not call them white? I know, race is fuzzy. Edit: For the US Census, Hispanic people are of "Spanish culture or origin regardless of race."
Boo... "Other Race / Native American / Multi-racial" Turns out composition is better than inheritance for so many things.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only if you count the 17% who are hispanic as white, otherwise it's 62%. But Hispanic white people will probably stop being viewed as a separate racial groups before that long, as happened with the Irish.
Yeah I mean, they're still of European descent, why not call them white? I know, race is fuzzy. Edit: For the US Census, Hispanic people are of "Spanish culture or origin regardless of race."
Spanish are just as white was the rest of the Europeans. It was back about 450 years, when the Spaniards came over to the Americas and made what is called the Hacienda. Just like when the USA had their racial times regarding Africans, the Spanish did so to the natives here. What happened was a mixing between white Spanish and Incans, Aztecs, and Mayan descents. After much institutionalized slavery and racism, mixed with rape and destruction of the culture, we end up with people called "Mestizo", or mixed.
What we think of as Latinos, or Mexicans, or other derogatory words are the result of 450 years of slavery, rape and destruction of their culture.