As the art of infographics is rapidly improving, many are turning to more detailed information to visually graph as computer programs become more equipped to create beautiful, artistic, easy to understand visuals.
We’ve brought you a variety of infographics over the years and I ran across a set today that really caught my eye. This infographic set highlights race and ethnicity based on census data and it is amazingly well done.
According to the Eric Fisher, creator of the image maps, “Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, and Orange is Hispanic, and each dot is 25 people.” I very much enjoy seeing the diversity of these cities and how the rainbow blends and hope that with the completion of the next census, these reds, blues, greens and oranges are even more blended!
These are the 40 cities highlighted in the infographic set:
- Albuquerque
- Atlanta
- Austin
- Baltimore
- Boston
- Charlotte
- Chicago
- Cleveland
- Columbus
- Dallas
- Denver
- Detroit
- El Paso
- Fort Worth
- Fresno
- Houston
- Indianapolis
- Jacksonville
- Kansas City
- Las Vegas
- Long Beach
- Los Angeles
- Memphis
- Milwaukee
- Nashville
- New Orleans
- New York
- Oklahoma City
- Philadelphia
- Phoenix
- Portland
- San Antonio
- San Diego
- San Francisco
- San Jose
- Seattle
- St. Louis
- Tucson
- Virginia Beach
- Washington, DC
Terence Richardson
September 21, 2010 at 8:24 pm
Very interesting data set. I live and run my real estate business in Atlanta Georgia and at first glance, the Atlanta data set looks spot on.
Donna Patton
September 22, 2010 at 5:34 am
Very interesting, I wonder how HUD and Fair Housing would look at this if REALTORS use it on their sites or as marketing materials?
Paula Henry
September 22, 2010 at 7:57 am
Very cool data and I love infographics. It appears the Indianapolis one is dated, since we have a rather large Hispanic population not included.
I don’t think I would use it for marketing on my site, though! Be the source of the source, but not the source itself.
Dave Lewand
September 23, 2010 at 12:14 am
A map makes for a wonderful canvas, Lani! As we will see more and more from Google Me, it’s all about layers! As far as artists, I recommend stuff from Benjamin Wiederkehr (@datavis | datavisualization.ch/) and Nathan Yau (@flowingdata | flowingdata.com/). Thanks!