occasional geographic visualizations and cartographic musings
The blocks are as the Census Bureau defined them. They are not equal area. Instead they take local...
Greater Austin Presidential Election Results 2016 This map depicts the results of the 2016 Presidential Election within the Greater Austin, Texas metropolitan area. It includes Travis, Williamson, Hays and Bastrop Counties, but not Caldwell*. Votes are shown as dots, where one dot represents 3 votes. For a more precise demonstration of voter preference, as well as their density and distribution,…
Austin Proposition 1 Results Map Proposition 1 was an industry-sponsored citizen’s ballot initiative concerning recently-enacted city ordinances governing the operation of so-called ride hailing or transportation networking companies within Austin ( think Lyft, Uber, and the like ). A special referendum was held May 7, 2016 directly asking the voters in the city to overrule the city council and…
Full-size map It’s the 2016 primary election season in the United States and this map represents a small part of it. It depicts the geographic distribution of votes for Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in Travis County, Texas (home to Austin, the state’s capital city) during the Democratic Presidential Party on “Super Tuesday”, March 2. The dots on the map represent voters. They were generated…
The Rally’s – Checkers Divide (2014) This map is a quickie to meet demand from the reddit thread about the Hardee’s – Carl’s jr map . It shows the distribution of Checkers and Rally’s restaurants across the United States. Both chains were founded independently in the 1980s and merged operations in 1999. No plans to do any analysis of the results, but at first glance, there does not appear to be a…
See full-size map. This map depicts the distribution of more than 2800 Hardee’s and...
Howdy folks! It’s been a quiet few months around here, hasn’t it? I assure you more...
Waffle House by Latitude After the seriousness of the Nobody Lives Here map , we’re back to the silliness of Waffle House. I promised more visualizations of WaHo geography, and here I deliver. This graphic shows a mash-up of two visualization types: a map and a bar chart. The concept is similar to Bill Rankin’s population histograms , which tabulate population counts by latitude or longitude.…
France Edition: Nobody Lives Here This is not a “map by nik”, but one by twitter user @matamix . And it is a fine companion piece to my United States version that I thought I’d share. Based on population data from INSEE, it shows the parts of Metropolitan France where people don’t live. Like the U.S. map, terrain plays a big role in determining where people settle. For instance, the roughness of…
Nobody lives here: The nearly 5 million Census Blocks with zero population A Block is the smallest area unit used by the U.S. Census Bureau for tabulating statistics. As of the 2010 census, the United States consists of 11,078,300 Census Blocks. Of them, 4,871,270 blocks totaling 4.61 million square kilometers were reported to have no population living inside them. Despite having a population of…
Waffle House Density by Quad The map shown here is a truly quick-and-dirty visualization of the distribution and density of Waffle House locations as of summer 2012. It started as a way for me to play with 3D in Google Earth, but that giant spike in Atlanta was interesting enough that I thought it worth sharing. The rectangles represent USGS 30x60 minute (1:100,000) map quad boundaries and the…
Paris Métro Coverage There’s a saying–common in travel books–that Paris is so friendly to pedestrians, no point in the city is more than 500 meters (about six minutes on foot) from a metro station. Putting that notion to the test, this map highlights areas where the saying is indeed true. Within the départment of Paris proper, 96% of its area (excluding the large parks) is but a short walk from…