Proposed Congressional districts for NYS available in GIS format

UPDATE March 6, 2012 We’ve added Congressional districts as proposed by District Court Judge Hon. Roanne Mann to our interactive redistricting site. Here’s a link that compares District 9 (Rep. Turner, in NYC) with one of the proposed districts that it would become under her proposed lines: http://t.co/01K4hMu8 We also submitted a letter today to the [...]

Redistricting’s partisan impacts: a GIS analysis

Our team at the Center for Urban Research is collaborating with The New York World to analyze the impacts of redistricting in New York State.  The latest effort was featured today on the front page of the Times Union; it focuses on how the majority parties in the State Senate and Assembly would likely retain — [...]

Interactive NY redistricting map with cartoDB and more

New York State, like all other states, is in the midst of redrawing its legislative district lines. To help you follow along, our team at the Center for Urban Research has launched an interactive redistricting map for New York.  We collaborated with The New York World to develop the maps (though we encourage anyone and everyone [...]

Proposed NYS Senate & Assembly districts available in GIS format

UPDATE February 5, 2012 You can visualize these proposed districts in relation to the current New York State Senate and Assembly districts with our new interactive redistricting map.  We developed the interactive map in collaboration with The New York World, and here’s an article using the maps to describe the redistricting process in the Empire [...]

Innovative map comparisons – Census change in 15 cities

Our team at the Center for Urban Research (at the CUNY Graduate Center) has updated our interactive maps showing race/ethnicity patterns from 2000 and 2010 in major cities across the US. We’ve enhanced the maps in several ways: Added more cities. We now have 15 major urban regions mapped across the US (Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, [...]

Slippy maps, meet before-and-after jQuery slider (introductions by OpenLayers)

Our team at the Center for Urban Research (at the CUNY Graduate Center) has launched a set of maps showing race/ethnicity patterns from 2000 and 2010 in major cities across the US.  The maps combine several mapping/web technologies that offer a new way of visualizing population change.  This post explains how we did it. (And [...]

GIS and Census participation

It’s been too long since my last blog post. Have been quite busy with work, and even though Twitter is a microblogging service, sending a tweet now and then really isn’t an excuse to keep up my actual blog. One of the projects keeping me (very) busy is our work to help boost participation in [...]

Mapping “hard to count” areas for 2010 Census

UPDATED 8/21/09: Newsday (Long Island’s daily newspaper) reproduced an island-wide version of one of our maps in their article today (though the map only appeared in the print version of the paper). People are gearing up across the US for the 2010 Census — not just the Census Bureau, of course, but organizations large and small [...]

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